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@kfm Fri, 08 Dec 2023 07:45:33

40m women experience long-term childbirth health problems – Report

A new study published last evening in the Lancet Global Health journal has revealed that annually, at least 40 million women are likely to experience a long-term health problem caused by childbirth. The study shows a high burden of postnatal conditions that persist in the months or even years after giving birth. These include pain during sexual intercourse (dyspareunia), affecting more than a third (35%) of postpartum women, low back pain (32%), anal incontinence (19%), urinary incontinence (8-31%), anxiety (9-24%), depression (11-17%), perineal pain (11%), fear of childbirth (tokophobia) (6-15%) and secondary infertility (11%). The study titled, ‘Maternal Health in the perinatal period and Beyond’, calls for greater attention to the long-term health of women and girls after and also […]

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