Risk factors for urinary incontinence in women

Journal of the British Menopause Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 75-76+78

  Robinson, Dudley ^a   Cardozo, Linda ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Epidemiology; Risk factors; Urinary incontinence; Women

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE;

AGE; ANAMNESIS; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; MENOPAUSE; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; NOCTURIA; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; URINARY INCONTINENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0037492457     PISSN: 13621807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/136218003100322233     Document Type: Review

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