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Elsevier, The Surgeon, 2(16), p. 107-118, 2018

DOI: 10.1016/j.surge.2016.11.002

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Cultural background, non-therapeutic circumcision and the risk of meatal stenosis and other urethral stricture disease:Two nationwide register-based cohort studies in Denmark 1977-2013

Journal article published in 2016 by Morten Frisch, Jacob Simonsen ORCID
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Meatal stenosis is markedly more common in circumcised than genitally intact males, affecting 5-20 per cent of circumcised boys. However, no population-based study has estimated the relative risk of meatal stenosis and other urethral stricture diseases (USDs) or the population attributable fraction (AFp) associated with non-therapeutic circumcision. METHODS: In two nationwide cohort studies (comprising 4.0 million males of all ages and 810 719 non-Muslim males aged 0-36 years, respectively), we compared hospital contact rates for USD during 1977-2013 between circumcised and intact Danish males. Hazard ratios (HRs) were obtained using Cox proportional hazards regression, and the AFp estimated the proportion of USD cases in