Female urinary incontinence affects 10–40% of community indwelling aging women and constitutes a significant risk factor for hospitalization and institutionalization independent of sex, age and presence of comorbidities, with significant socio-economic and quality of life (QOL) impact, including significant restrictions in social activities, travel, recreation and personal relationships.5,6 Depression and pathological anxiety have also been associated with incontinence.
Almost half of incontinentwomen suffer fromstress incontinence, 29% have mixed incontinence and the rest have urge incontinence. Stress incontinence has been associated with a variety of risk factors that result in chronic increase of abdominal pressure. Histological10 and electromyographic evidence support the role of pelvic floor injury during child birth in the development of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Obesity, smoking, cough, and chronic constipation have also been
proposed as important causative factors in SUI.
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