Urinary incontinence in middle aged women: Childhood enuresis and other lifetime risk factors in a British prospective cohort

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 453-458

  Kuh, Diana ^a   Cardozo, Linda ^b   Hardy, Rebecca ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; ENURESIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MENOPAUSE; NEWBORN; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; OBESITY; POPULATION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0032808088     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.53.8.453     Document Type: Article

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