Do Men Get Adhesions? an informative look by Dr. David Wiseman Phd, MRPharmS, Founder, International Adhesions Society (IAS)
From: IAS Admin (tracy.joslin@adhesions.org)
Sun Oct 7 11:46:30 2007
Readers,
Please take a moment to learn more about men & adhesions from this article
by Dr. Wiseman. You can download the full report by going to:
http://www.adhesions.org/whatsnew.htm or, http://www.adhesions.org/downloads.htm
We have also posted this in our Men's section.
Thank you.
Tracy
IAS Admin
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Do Men Get Adhesions? an informative look by David Wiseman PhD, MRPharmS,
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Founder, International Adhesions Society
It is a common myth that only women are prone to adhesions. While it is
certainly true that women have more "internal parts" that require surgery,
which inevitably leads to adhesions, men are not excluded from the problem
of adhesions. A simple look at the national statistics collected from
hospital discharges (ICD9 codes) from the most recent data available
(2001-2005) reveals the following:
* Over 50,000 men were discharged from hospital in 2005 with a diagnosis
of peritoneal adhesions (568.0), accounting for 28% of such diagnoses,
compared with 72% for women.
*Over 37,000 men were discharged in 2005 with a diagnosis that included
the specific diagnosis of intestinal adhesions with (ie causing) bowel
obstruction (560.81). This number accounts for 38% of cases, compared
with 62% for women.
*Men also accounted for 37% of discharges with a principal diagnosis
(as opposed to an incidental diagnosis) was intestinal adhesions with
obstruction (560.81). Their length of stay was slightly higher than that
of women in 3 of the five years studied and their hospital charges exceeded
those of women in every year by as much as $2500.
*Over 2000 men and women died every year with a diagnosis of intestinal
adhesions with obstruction, representing about 3% of the total discharges
with that diagnosis. The contribution of males to this death rate was in
every year slightly higher than that of women in proportion to their
discharges, by 10-15% in the years 2002-2005, and about 2% in 2001.
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