Delivery mode is a major environmental determinant of stress urinary incontinence: Results of the Evanston-Northwestern Twin Sisters Study

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2149-2153

  Goldberg, Roger P ^a   Abramov, Yoram ^a   Botros, Sylvia ^a   Miller, Jay James ^a   Gandhi, Sanjay ^a   Nickolov, Angel ^a   Sherman, Wendy ^a   Sand, Peter K ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childbirth; Epidemiology; Identical twins; Stress urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBESITY; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STRESS INCONTINENCE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 28444454969     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.08.055     Document Type: Article

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