Overactive Bladder, Urinary Incontinence Common in Middle-Aged Women

Dec. 22, 2021 (HealthDay Information) — Practically one in 5 Japanese ladies report urinary incontinence associated to overactive bladder (OAB) or stress urinary incontinence, in response to a examine revealed on-line Nov. 12 in Menopause.

Kazue Nagai, Ph.D., from Gunma College in Japan, and colleagues investigated the prevalence and components related to urinary signs in ladies. The evaluation included 12,198 members within the Japan Nurses’ Well being Examine (imply age, 46.5 years).

The researchers discovered that the prevalence of OAB was 9.5 p.c (OAB with urinary incontinence [wet], 5.4 p.c; OAB with out urinary incontinence, 4.1 p.c), whereas the prevalence of stress urinary incontinence (with out OAB-wet) was 13.9 p.c and the prevalence of combined urinary incontinence was 2.1 p.c. There was a big affiliation noticed between OAB and age 45 to 54 years, with a reasonable affiliation between postmenopausal standing and OAB. Within the multivariable-adjusted mannequin, there have been important associations with stress urinary incontinence (with out OAB-wet) amongst age teams 45 to 49 years and 50 to 54 years, physique mass index 23 to 27.4 and ≥27.5 kg/m2, and parous standing.

“This examine underscores how frequent urinary incontinence is in ladies,” Stephanie Faubion, M.D., medical director of the North American Menopause Society, mentioned in an announcement. “Given the numerous detrimental impact on high quality of life and the presence of efficient methods for administration of those burdensome signs, clinicians ought to routinely ask ladies about urinary incontinence.”