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KAMUELA, HAWAII -- When Dr. Katherine Van Kessel decided to look back at the obstetric records of women who developed severe stress urinary incontinence, her hunch was that she would find a link to a prolonged second stage of labor.
What she found instead was that women with severe stress urinary incontinence (SUI) were nine times more likely than those without the disorder to have had a forceps delivery, she said at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society.
She and her associates studied the records of 85 women with severe SUI who had given birth within the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound between 1982 and 1996 and remained enrolled until at least 1998.
A control group of 88 women was similar in age, years of enrollment in the health ...