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Exfoliation syndrome may be more common in women with pelvic organ prolapse
Women with pelvic organ prolapse were more likely to be diagnosed with exfoliation syndrome, according to a study using the Utah Population Database.Researchers split the study into two substudies and performed a cross-sectional analysis in substudy A, which included 132,772 women who were enrolled in Utah Medicare from 1992 to 2009, to determine the association between exfoliation syndrome and pelvic organ prolapse. In substudy B, researchers estimated the risk of incident exfoliation syndrome in a cohort of 5,130 women between the ages of 30 and 65 years who had a (Read more...)