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Male fertility-related disorders
Male fertility-related disorders: cause for concern or a stalking horse?
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Mireille B Toledano
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; m.toledano@imperial.ac.uk
Perspective on the papers by Abdullah et al and Nassar et al (see pages 576 and 580)
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In this issue, Abdullah et al examine routine Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) from the 1990s for northern England and report a decreasing birth prevalence of cryptorchidism and orchidopexy. In addition, they report a small increase in birth prevalence of hypospadias but no change in the rate of hypospadias surgical repair (corrective procedure rates). The latter is more likely to reflect true prevalence as the vast majority of cases are referred for surgery. In contrast, Nassar et al, also in this issue, report on a population-based study to determine trends in hypospadias in the Australian population, 1980–2000. Data were obtained from a congenital anomaly registry (with multiple sources of notification) for aborted and still births and for live births up to 6 years old. Overall birth prevalence was found to be 3.5 over the 20-year study period with birth prevalence rates increasing significantly by 2% per annum.
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