Health characteristics of postmenopausal women with breast implants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term health characteristics and quality of life in patients with breast implants are important issues in plastic surgery.

Methods

The authors evaluated characteristics of women who had breast implant surgery in the Women's Health Initiative observational study between 1993 and 1998. Most women in this study cohort had breast implant surgery 20 or more years before recruitment into the study. The women who were in the study who had not undergone breast implant surgery served as the comparison group. There were 86,686 women in the study who did not have breast implant surgery and an absent history of breast cancer, and 1257 women who had breast implant surgery and no prior breast cancer.

Results

Total mortality rates were substantially lower among women

SUBMITTER: Rubin JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2837521 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature