Objectives. To report on the further development of the Incontinence Quality of Life
Instrument (I-QOL), a self-report quality of life measure specific to urinary incontinence (UI) …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for urinary incontinence in
middle-aged women. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 83,355 …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the annual direct cost of urinary incontinence in 1995 US dollars.
METHODS: Epidemiologically based models using diagnostic and treatment algorithms from …

Understanding the epidemiology (distribution and determinants) of urinary incontinence (UI),
as well as its natural history is a very important issue. In this article, we discuss prevalence …

OBJECTIVE: To understand variation in prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI) and risk
factors, given different definitions. METHODS: The National Health and Nutrition …

The evolution of urodynamic units may be traced to the interest in the hydrodynamics of
micturition which had been simmering since the early cystometric studies of the nineteenth …

Aims To review the epidemiological literature of urinary incontinence with respect to
overweight and obesity as a risk factor, and how the findings eventually fulfill general criteria …

Objective: To examine prospectively the relation between psychosocial work characteristics
and changes in health related quality of life over four years in a cohort of working women in …

Objective: To estimate prevalence of and identify factors associated with urinary
incontinence in older women. Methods: A cross-sectional study involved 7949 community …

OBJECTIVES: To review the definition of the overactive bladder and to summarize the
results of epidemiologic studies on this specific disorder as well as urinary incontinence (UI) …