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ARTICLE: Hysterectomy May Boost Incontinence RiskFrom: Hope (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:20:49 -0500 (CDT)
Hysterectomy May Boost Incontinence Risk When done to treat benign conditions, procedure more than doubled the odds, study found "This 30-year study, conducted between 1973 and 2003, involved more than 165,000 Swedish women who had undergone a hysterectomy and more than 479,500 women who had not. The risk of having to undergo surgery for stress urinary incontinence was 2.4 times higher in the hysterectomy group than in the control group, regardless of what type of surgical technique was used for the hysterectomy. The highest risk was during the first five years after the hysterectomy, when the risk was 2.7 times higher. The lowest risk was more than 10 years down the line, when the risk was only 2.1 times higher for patients who had undergone a hysterectomy compared with those who had not. The most logical explanation for the association, according to the authors, was surgical trauma that can occur when the uterus and cervix are detached from the pelvic-floor supportive tissues during a hysterectomy." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_56692.html
-- Hope, WH Forum Moderator
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