AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Moderate exercise rarely increases incontinence: Obesity, family history are exceptions.
CHICAGO -- Moderate exercise is not likely to increase the risk for urinary incontinence in women unless they are obese or have a family history of urinary incontinence, Dr. Dallas Johnson said at the annual meeting of the American Urogynecologic Society.
Those were the only two independent risk factors for urinary incontinence (UI) among 353 Houston women who answered questionnaires at their exercise facilities. These findings suggest that the often-reported association between UI and intensity of exercise may be confounded by obesity, said Dr. Johnson of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.
The women's mean age was 27 years (range 18-46 years), and their mean body mass index (BMI) was 22. Most (84%) had been exercising for the past 5-10 years, 47% at a rate of two to three times a week and 39% at a rate of four to five times weekly. A majority (72%) exercised at moderate intensity, between 1 and 1.5 hours at a time.
Twenty-five percent answered "yes" to the question: "Do you leak urine when you don't ...
- How Ma-ui fished up the great island: a play based on a Hawaiian folktale.(Play)
- Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures Betteley, Pat January 1, 2009 700+ words
...Narrator 1, Narrator 2, Narrator 3. Ma-ui, Brother 1. Brother 2, Mother (Hina...of-the-Sea) Narrator 1: Now, Ma-ui (MOW-ee) had done many great deeds and...fish? Brother 2: That is my fish, Ma-ui. See my hook in its mouth? How did you...
- UI Sells Power Plants To Wisvest Corp.
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 5, 1998 700+ words
...a subsidiary of Wisconsin Energy Corp. UI will receive $272 million in cash. "The...competitive marketplace in the region," said UI's President and Chief Executive Officer...help serve the area's energy needs." UI notified state regulators in mid-May of...
- UI proposes rate freeze.
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 28, 1996 700+ words
...31, 2001. The freeze is one element in UI's Connecticut Competitive Challenge...the New Haven-based electric utility. UI submitted the plan to the DPUC this morning...innovation and service quality. Under the plan, UI's earnings will be affected by the achievement...
- UI Seeks $37.5 Million Grant to Accelerate Smart Grid Infrastructure.
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 4, 2009 700+ words
...its transmission and distribution system. UI would invest an equal amount of its own...completed over three years. If granted, UI would invest the funds in a range of projects...in so doing offer measureable benefits to UI's customers. "These funds would help...
- Registration of `UI 465' Great Northern Dry Bean.
- Magazine article from: Crop Science MYERS, J.R. STEWART-WILLIAMS, K.D. HAYES, R.E. KOLAR, J.J. SINGH, S.P. September 1, 2001 700+ words
`UI 465' great northern dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris...Station at Kimberly, ID, and released in 1997. UI 465 is high-yielding with I gene resistance...races prevalent in the Western and Central USA. UI 465 was derived from a [F.sub.2] single...
- UI Notifies DPUC of Intent to Request Rate Increase.
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 10, 2005 700+ words
...Today, The United Illuminating Company (UI or the Company) (NYSE:UIL) filed a...officially notifying the regulatory agency that UI will request an increase to its distribution...design period. "Our request to increase UI's distribution rate is a necessary action...
- Registration of `UI 259' Red Dry Bean.
- Magazine article from: Crop Science MYERS, J.R. STEWART-WILLIAMS, K.D. HAYES, R.E. KOLAR, J.J. SINGH, S.P. September 1, 2001 700+ words
...red dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) `UI 259' (Reg. no. CV-188, PI 613582...Kimberly, ID, and was released in 1997. UI 259 is high-yielding, resistant to most...and resistant to curly top virus (CTV). UI 259 was derived from an [F.sub.2...
- Motorola UI follows 'golden path'.
- Magazine article from: RCR Wireless News August 8, 2005 700+ words
...Doug Walston, director of Motorola's UI design team. As such, Walston said, an...interfaces. Critics have long bemoaned the UI on Motorola phones as complicated and overly...Walston admits that Motorola's longtime UI-called Synergy within the company-wasn...
