Key result
Vasectomy is not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease or hospitalization long term.
Cohort (n=17,540)
To determine the long-term effects of vasectomy on health we studied the incidence of hospitalized illness in 4,385 vasectomized and 13,155 age and race-matched nonvasectomized men. In none of the 16 disease groupings we examined was the incidence of hospitalized illness in the vasectomized men significantly different from that in the nonvasectomized men, considering men with all durations of vasectomy. Neither the incidence of acute myocardial infarction, other ischemic heart disease nor that of all atherosclerotic diseases considered as a group was significantly different between the vasectomized and nonvasectomized men, even in those whose duration of vasectomy was 10 years or more. These data are reassuring, providing no evidence for an adverse health effect of vasectomy in men.
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Petitti et al. (1983) conducted a cohort in Hospitalized illness and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases following vasectomy (n=17,540). Vasectomy vs. Age- and race-matched nonvasectomized men was evaluated on Incidence of hospitalized illness across 16 disease groupings, including acute myocardial infarction, other ischemic heart disease, and all atherosclerotic diseases. Vasectomy did not significantly increase hospitalized illness across 16 disease groupings or MI and atherosclerotic disease vs matched controls (n=17,540), even after ≥10 years.
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