Removal of ovaries during hysterectomy linked to increase in heart disease, cancer and premature death
Monday, February 6, 2017 - 22:41
in Health & Medicine
A link has been found between removal of both ovaries at the time of hysterectomy and premature death. Increase in incidence of heart disease and cancer, and of deaths from heart disease and cancer when ovaries were removed. More than 113,000 hysterectomy cases were studied and the ovaries were removed in about a third of these.