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Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in Different Age Categories

NCT00906607 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 78

Last updated 2009-05-21

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Summary

Introduction: Urinary incontinence (UI) is considered erroneously by many as being a phenomenon of the aging process, however there is a growing prevalence of complaints of UI in nulliparous and nulligest young women.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of urinary incontinence in women of different age groups.

Method: 78 nulliparous and nulligest women of different resident age groups in the city of France, being these divided in: G1 (10-18 years); G2 (20-35 years); G3 (45-60 years) and G4 (65-75 years). Excluded from this study were women with cancer or surgeries of the inferior urinary treatment, urinary infection, alterations cognitive, pregnant and obesity. All the participants were questioned as a perception of urine loss, to the efforts or effortlessly evident.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidade de Franca

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lislei Patrizzi · Universidade de Franca

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2008-08-31
Completion
2008-10-31

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