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Risk Increases According To Weight And Childbirth, Not Menopause.

Women's Health Weekly

| October 18, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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. ...

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