Prevalence and trends of symptomatic pelvic floor disorders in U.S. women

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 141-148

  Wu, Jennifer M ^a,b,c   Vaughan, Camille P ^a,b,c   Goode, Patricia S ^a,b,c   Redden, David T ^a,b,c   Burgio, Kathryn L ^a,b,c   Richter, Holly E ^a,b,c   Markland, Alayne D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PELVIC FLOOR DISORDER; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893687247     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000057     Document Type: Article

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