We are closer to 70-80%, but it’s much higher or lower in some regions. At my hospital virtually 100% are circumcised.
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Replying to @maie_lynn @artbyailbhe and
It’s gradually declining. Very uncommon in some populations. In Houston at country hospital I did like 2 a month because most patients were from Mexico.
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Replying to @SBMPediatrics @maie_lynn and
I don’t have actual stats, but I can say newborn circumcision is rare in NZ. Approx 10% In 14years at my General Practice I’ve only seen one circumcised baby
and I asked the parents why they chose to.”To look like his Dad”.
WTF?
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Replying to @iv_coffee_stat @SBMPediatrics and
It was around 5% in 2000, mainly Polynesians, Muslims and Jews. http://circumstitions.com/NZ.html
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Replying to @intactive @SBMPediatrics and
Thanks for that information. I knew our rates were low in NZ these days, hence I never see any in the boys or young men at my Practice. Nor was it ever part of any conversation when I had my son early 90s in UK. I was unaware it was still so prevalent in the US, to be honest.
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Replying to @iv_coffee_stat @SBMPediatrics and
And of course if the MGC advocates in the USA are correct, you see a stream of intact boys and men with all sort of foreskin problems - infections, phimoses, paraphimoses, STDs, UTIs, HIV - right?
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Replying to @intactive @SBMPediatrics and
I mean, of course we see STIs (in women & men)- most commonly chlamydia with a recently rise in gonorrhoea. But virtually all men under 30 have a foreskin and are also the biggest group with STI (tho we see it in all age!) so it’s impossible to compare to circumcised group.
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Replying to @iv_coffee_stat @intactive and
That's the thing, this is why it's done in the USA so much, because they say it will prevent these diseases. But if the risk of these diseases was high enough that it would be worth allowing parents to decide, your country should be full of nothing but penile cancer, and STDs.
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Replying to @ReyosB @iv_coffee_stat and
It's made worse by the fact that the data doesn't support the claim, and most of the issues they say to prevent are treatable without surgery. Most of the involved STDs and UTIs are curable, phimosis is treatable without surgery in about 80% of cases, and when surgery is needed>>
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2> dorsal slits with transverse closures will relieve the tightness without removing any tissue. The USA has the highest rates for most issues that circumcision is supposed to prevent, but that doesn't unfortunately have people questioning the practice. I'll admit yes >>
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Replying to @ReyosB @iv_coffee_stat and
3> circumcision will prevent phimosis, paraphimosis, and posthitis, but only because you are cutting off the body part that is involved in these, you could prevent any potential issue with amputation of the part that gets that issue, it doesn't make that ethical.
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