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Male circumcision greatly increases risk of urinary tract problems
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Circumcision, whereby the foreskin is removed from the penis, can cause the urethral opening to narrow, making it difficult to urinate.
The condition is called meatal stenosis and the risk of developing it is 16-26 times higher in circumcised than intact boys under the age of ten.
These are the conclusions of a new study based on data from the National Patient Register, the Central Population Register, and the National Health Service Register in Denmark between 1977 and 2013.
The results are published in the journal The Surgeon.
^^ Urinary problems that require surgery ^^
Meatal stenosis can occur several years after circumcision, and may lead to infection if left untreated. The only solution is a minor operation under general anaesthesia.
“This is the first population-based study to systematically follow circumcised and intact boys for meatal stenosis and other urethral strictures over many years. Our study challenges the dogma that circumcision rarely has negative consequences,” says lead-author Dr Morten Frisch, adjunct professor of sexual health epidemiology at Aalborg University and a consultant and senior investigator at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“One cannot say that this is something that causes trouble only occasionally. We must assume, based on rigorous clinical studies in the US, Iran, and other countries, that somewhere between 5 and 20 per cent of circumcised boys will eventually develop a pathological narrowing of the urinary opening as a late consequence of their circumcision,” says Frisch, who conducted the study along with statistician Jacob Simonsen, also from Statens Serum Institut.
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https://sciencenordic.com/childrens-...oblems/1441376 {https://sciencenordic.com/childrens-health-circumcision-denmark/male-circumcision-greatly-increases-risk-of-urinary-tract-problems/1441376}
Excerpt:
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Circumcision, whereby the foreskin is removed from the penis, can cause the urethral opening to narrow, making it difficult to urinate.
The condition is called meatal stenosis and the risk of developing it is 16-26 times higher in circumcised than intact boys under the age of ten.
These are the conclusions of a new study based on data from the National Patient Register, the Central Population Register, and the National Health Service Register in Denmark between 1977 and 2013.
The results are published in the journal The Surgeon.
^^ Urinary problems that require surgery ^^
Meatal stenosis can occur several years after circumcision, and may lead to infection if left untreated. The only solution is a minor operation under general anaesthesia.
“This is the first population-based study to systematically follow circumcised and intact boys for meatal stenosis and other urethral strictures over many years. Our study challenges the dogma that circumcision rarely has negative consequences,” says lead-author Dr Morten Frisch, adjunct professor of sexual health epidemiology at Aalborg University and a consultant and senior investigator at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“One cannot say that this is something that causes trouble only occasionally. We must assume, based on rigorous clinical studies in the US, Iran, and other countries, that somewhere between 5 and 20 per cent of circumcised boys will eventually develop a pathological narrowing of the urinary opening as a late consequence of their circumcision,” says Frisch, who conducted the study along with statistician Jacob Simonsen, also from Statens Serum Institut.
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