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Hospitalization Rates in Vasectomized Men
Alexander M. Walker, MD, DrPH;
Hershel Jick, MD;
Judith R. Hunter;
Anne Danford;
Kenneth J. Rothman, DrPH
JAMA. 1981;245(22):2315-2317.
Abstract
Six thousand ninety-two men who had undergone vasectomy were observed for 20,491 person-years of observation in a prepaid group practice. The incidences of first-time hospitalizations for a variety of diagnoses were examined as a proxy for disease incidence rates and compared with similarly derived rates in the remaining male membership of the practice. Vasectomized men had comparatively high rates of hospitalization for a variety of diseases of the genitourinary system during the early postvasectomy perlod. Apart from these, there were no important, statistically convincing elevations in the new hospitalization rates among vasectomized men, as compared with those of the nonvasectomized comparison group.
(JAMA 1981;245:2315-2317)
Author Affiliations
From the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University Medical Center, Waltham, Mass (Dr Jick); Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle (Mss Hunter and Danford); the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Sidney Farber Cancer institute, Boston (Dr Walker); and the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (Dr Rothman).
Footnotes
Reprint requests to the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, 400-1 Totten Pond Rd, Waltham, MA 02154 (Dr Jick).
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