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Many incontinent women don't find wetting a problem. (Survey of 606 Women).
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA -- Half of women over age 45 in a recent survey reported experiencing urinary incontinence, but only a minority considered it a problem in their daily activities, Dr. Graham Swanson reported at WONCA 2001, the conference of the World Organization of Family Doctors.
The likelihood that a woman considered accidental wetting to be a problem varied markedly depending upon the type of urinary incontinence she had. Among women with stress incontinence, 18% described wetting as a problem in their daily activities, as did 20.5% of those with urge incontinence and 51.9% of those with mixed incontinence, said Dr. Swanson, a family physician at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
He reported on a survey of 606 randomly sampled Canadian women over age 45 who attended one of two family medicine clinics. Overall, 51% said that they experienced accidental wetting.
Women who described incontinence as a problem tended to see themselves as having poor health and becoming ...
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