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8th May 2018
03:29pm BST
The researchers have found that women who have had their appendix or tonsils removed appear to be more fertile.
The study has been going on for 15 years now, and included more than half a million British women who all agreed to have their medical records analysed.
The findings have shown that for every 100 pregnant women who didn’t have their tonsils or appendix removed there were
“This [study] is very important in reassuring young women that appendectomy will not reduce their chances of future pregnancies. More importantly, looking at both the appendix and tonsils together, this study confirms beyond doubt that removal of inflamed organs or organs likely to suffer from repeated inflammation, in women, improves their chances of pregnancy.”Professor Allan Pacey from the University of Sheffield explained to the BBC how he thought the correlation exists
“There are several explanations which may account for these observations, one of which is that the removal of these tissues makes an alteration to their immune system which had an impact to some aspect of the reproductive process (such as how their embryos implant in the womb)”Experts are predicting that this new finding could lead to new treatments but have strongly advised women to avoid any unnecessary surgical removals.
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