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COADY SEANA, RICHEY SHARRETT A, ZHENG ZHIJIE, EVANS GREGORYW, HEISS GERARDO. VASECTOMY, INFLAMMATION, ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND LONG-TERM FOLLOWUP FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES: NO ASSOCIATIONS IN THE ATHEROSCLEROSIS RISK IN COMMUNITIES STUDY. J Urol 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5347(05)65413-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- SEAN A. COADY
- From the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, Cardiovascular Health Branch, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- From the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, Cardiovascular Health Branch, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- From the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, Cardiovascular Health Branch, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- From the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, Cardiovascular Health Branch, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- From the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, Cardiovascular Health Branch, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Mullooly JP, Wiest WM, Alexander NJ, Greenlick MR, Fulgham DL. Vasectomy, serum assays, and coronary heart disease symptoms and risk factors. J Clin Epidemiol 1993; 46:101-9. [PMID: 8433106 DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(93)90014-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We compared three serum assays (two antisperm antibody assays and one assay for circulating immune complexes) and a number of CHD-related variables in 69 vasectomized (V) and 126 non-vasectomized (NV) participants in the Portland Center for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Significant differences between the V and NV men were found in sperm agglutination (SA) and sperm immobilization (SI) titers, as well as in several CHD risk factors, symptoms, and treatments; men in the V group had higher titers for SA and SI, smoked more, and had lower diastolic and systolic blood pressure than men in the NV group. Differences between V and NV in SA and SI activity remained even after we controlled for any effects that CHD risk factors, symptoms, and treatments may have had on the serum assays. Antibody development tended to decrease with age-at-vasectomy and increase with time-post-vasectomy. In the case of SA the antibodies clearly increased with time-post-vasectomy.
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- J P Mullooly
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR 97227
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Thonneau P, D'Isle B. Does vasectomy have long-term effects on somatic and psychological health status? INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY 1990; 13:419-32. [PMID: 2096110 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.1990.tb01050.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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All the major international articles on the somatic and psychological consequences of vasectomy published over the last 10 years have been reviewed and analysed. Although some experiments on animals have revealed harmful effects, none of the large-scale epidemiological studies has pointed to any increase in health risks (cardiovascular, hypertensive, psychiatric) in vasectomized men. The contradictions which arise between the clinical and large-scale epidemiological studies may be the result of methodological or experimental conditions. As our knowledge stands at present it can therefore be considered that vasectomy has no major effects on the physical or mental health of men.
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- P Thonneau
- Centre for Voluntary Pregnancy Termination, Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes, France
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The presence of circulating immune complexes have been described in many different human disease states but the significance of their presence has always been a subject for debate. Improvements in the methods of detecting immune complexes have demonstrated a wide degree of heterogeneity, which accounts for the difficulty in obtaining accurate and reproducible measurements, even in the same individual. Techniques for isolating individual complexes, characterizing their pathophysiological properties, and biochemically analyzing the nature of the complexed antigen are now being used to provide data that is helping to clarify the role of immune complexes in the pathogenesis of disease. In addition, such studies are also providing data which is proving that immune complexes have a potential role in immune regulation.
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- T M Phillips
- Department of Immunochemistry and Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C
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