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People who get abortions are less likely to have complications than people who have their wisdom teeth removed, finds a new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Researchers at University of California San Francisco wanted to
understand, from a medical standpoint, the safety of abortions, so they
analyzed 54,911 of them performed from 2009-2010 on women, as well as
the health care services the women received in the six weeks following
the abortion.
Of those abortions, only 2.1% resulted in a complication—considerably
lower than the 7% complication rate for wisdom tooth removal and 9%
rate for tonsillectomy, the authors point out. Major complications that
required hospitalization, surgery or a blood transfusion occurred in
only 0.23% of the women in the study—126 cases. That’s lower than the
rate of major complications for colonoscopy, says study author Ushma
Upadhyay, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of obstetrics,
gynecology and reproductive sciences at UCSF.
Fewer than 2% of abortions resulted in a minor complication.
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