Urinary Incontinence

Study Finds Women With Cystic Fibrosis "Too Embarrassed" To Seek Help

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 19th, 2001

A study from Britain reports that over two-thirds of women with the chest disease cystic fibrosis suffer urinary incontinence, yet are reluctant to seek help.

Given that incontinence can affect a patient's ability to perform essential daily treatment procedures, addressing this problem should become part of the routine management of cystic fibrosis, report Alison Orr and colleagues with South Manchester University Hospitals Trust, Manchester, U.K., in the June 21, 2001, issue of the British Medical Journal.

Researchers at the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit in Manchester invited women attending the clinic to complete an anonymous questionnaire. ...

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