BMJ  2005;330 (25 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7506.0-b

Hysterectomy doesn't seem to affect long term mortality

Having a hysterectomy doesn't seem to significantly increase women's mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer in the long term. Iversen and colleagues (p 1482) included 3705 women who had a hysterectomy and 3705 women who did not into a nested cohort study with a mean follow-up of more than 20 years. Neither all cause mortality nor mortality due to cardiovascular disease or cancer were significantly different between women who had a hysterectomy and those who did not.

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Long term effects of hysterectomy on mortality: nested cohort study

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