Aarhus University

Hormonal variation may influence risk

Published in Managed Care Business Week, June 29th, 2004

Urinary incontinence (UI) may be triggered by hormone variances, suggest researchers in Denmark.

L. Hvidman and colleagues, Aarhus University, conducted a study of the "association between menstrual cycle characteristics, the use of female hormones, and UI in an age-stratified random population sample of 2,158 premenopausal women who answered a questionnaire on urinary incontinence."

The questionnaires revealed that 18.3% of the women had UI episodes during 1997, and 3.9% reported one or more episodes in 1996.

"Based on multiple logistic regression," Hvidman and associates said, "self-reported UI the day before answering the...

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