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Postpartum depression tied to incontinence.(Obstetrics)
ATLANTA -- Women with postpartum depression are more likely than are nondepressed women to have urge urinary incontinence, according to findings presented in a poster at the annual meeting of the American Urogynecologic Society.
Of 146 women in the cross-sectional study, 12% had postpartum depression at the 6-week visit as measured by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. At that time, those with depression had a fourfold increase in overall and subscale scores on the Urge-Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (UIIQ), compared with nondepressed women.
This finding suggests depressed patients have more symptoms and a greater impact on their lives from urge urinary incontinence, Dee Fenner, M.D., said.
Depressed and nondepressed patients were similar in age, race, parity, and body mass index. On multivariate analysis, depression scores were shown to be affected by UIIQ score, smoking, and infant feeding mode (bottle vs. breast). ...
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