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2001 OCT 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although menopause has long been implicated as a cause of urinary incontinence, a new study finds that incontinence in middle age women is more closely related to being very overweight, having three or more children, and having bowel problems.
There was also a higher incidence of urinary incontinence among women who had hysterectomy compared with those who had not had hysterectomy.
The two-part study involved 1,897 Australian women ages 45-55 years combined with a 7-year follow-up of 373 women who were premenopausal at the first follow-up year.
The study found no significant association between urinary incontinence and increasing age within this cohort nor did it find a significant association between incontinence and the transition to postmenopause. ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Risk Increases According To Weight And Childbirth, Not Menopause.