Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd
Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage[$]
In a matched case control study, 97 women with at least three unexplained consecutive miscarriages prior to the 20th week of gestation with the same partner were included. Cases were younger than 36 years at time of the third miscarriage. The control group included 137 matched women with an uneventful pregnancy. The association between oral sex and recurrent miscarriage was assessed with conditional logistic regression, odds ratios (ORs) were estimated. Missing data were imputed using Imputation by Chained Equations.
In the matched analysis, 41 out of 72 women with recurrent miscarriage had have oral sex, whereas 70 out of 96 matched controls answered positive to this question (56.9% vs. 72.9%, OR 0.50 95%CI 0.25-0.97, pā=ā0.04). After imputation of missing exposure data (51.7%), the association became weaker (OR 0.67, 95%CI 0.36-1.24, pā=ā0.21).
[EDIT: The paper is referring to females giving oral sex to males. --fyngyrz]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by LaminatorX on Thursday April 04 2019, @03:29PM
Were the women with three miscarriages having the same amount of sexual relations overall as those in the control group, just less of it oral, or were they also having fewer sexual relations overall?
Because if they just discovered that couples don't have as much sex when with the anxiety of multiple miscarriages hanging over them, than this falls into the "No shit, Sherlock." research.