Can having your tonsils out lead to stress, anxiety or depression down the road?

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International researchers suggest that having your tonsils or adenoids removed in early life could be linked with a higher risk of developing some form of stress-related disorder later on, especially post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), compared with people who still have their throats intact. The study looked at over a million kids and young adults and compared their history of surgery against the likelihood of developing a stress-related disorder - such as PTSD, depression or anxiety. This kind of study cannot prove the surgery directly led to these conditions, but instead that there might be a potential role of adenotonsillar diseases or associated health conditions in the development of stress-related disorders.

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conference: JAMA Network Open

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Organisation/s: First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, China

Funder: This work was partly funded by grant U22A20322 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Medical Excellence Award funded by a Creative Research Development Grant from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University.

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