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Obesity and urinary incontinence in women
Article first published online: 19 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1988.tb06486.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 95, Issue 1, pages 91–96, January 1988
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DWYER, P. L., LEE, E. T. C. and HAY, D. M. (1988), Obesity and urinary incontinence in women. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 95: 91–96. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1988.tb06486.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 19 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 19 AUG 2005
- Received 2 March 1984, Resubmitted 18 August 1987, Accepted 30 August 1987
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Summary. In a series of 368 incontinent women who presented to our urodynamic clinic for assessment, 232 (63%) were diagnosed as having genuine stress incontinence, and 136 (27%) as having detrusor instability. Obesity (>20% more than average weight for height and age) was significantly more common in women with genuine stress incontinence and detrusor instability than in the normal population. In those with detrusor instability the body mass index was found to increase with age and parity. In women with genuine stress incontinence the body mass index increased with age and the number of previous incontinence operations; it was higher in nulliparous than in parous women. There was no significant difference between obese and nonobese women in any of the urodynamic variables measured in the two incontinence groups.