Epidemiology of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-43

  Diokno, Ananias C ^a   Estanol, Maria Victoria ^a   Mallett, Veronica ^b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Oakwood Healthcare Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

AGE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CHILDBIRTH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; MENOPAUSE; MICTURITION; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REMISSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; URETHRA; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ASIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINATION DISORDERS; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 1842484510     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200403000-00007     Document Type: Review

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