{"title":"Urinary Incontinence in Women","authors":"V. Bezhenar","doi":"10.33029/9704-6493-9-vfb-2022-1-160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33029/9704-6493-9-vfb-2022-1-160","url":null,"abstract":"Urinary incontinence is a common condition in women. Approximately 25% of young women (1), 44–57% of middle-aged and postmenopausal women (2), and 75% of older women experience some involuntary urine loss (3, 4). The estimated direct cost of urinary incontinence care in the United States is $19.5 billion (5). Approximately 6% of nursing home admissions of older women can be attributed to urinary incontinence (5), with an estimated cost of $3 billion per year (6). Despite the prevalence of urinary incontinence, many women are hesitant to seek care or discuss their symptoms with a physician. In a survey of women in the United States, only 45% of women who reported at least weekly urine leakage sought care for their incontinence symptoms (7). As a result, many women with urinary incontinence live with physical, functional, and psychological limitations and diminished quality of life at home and at work (8). Because urinary incontinence can be a difficult topic for patients to discuss, physicians should elicit information from patients and screen for these symptoms. Etiology","PeriodicalId":191338,"journal":{"name":"Urinary Incontinence in Women","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131758505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}