title: Prevalence of urinary leakage in nulliparous women with respect to physical activity and micturition habits.
abstract: In order to survey the influence of physical activity and micturition habits on urinary leakage (UL) in women before their first pregnancy, a study including 725 women attending nine maternity clinics in the northwest area of Stockholm was performed. During the 36th gestational week the women answered a questionnaire regarding the pre-pregnancy situation regarding UL, micturition habits and physical activity. Thirty-nine percent of the women, mean age of 28 (range 17-43) years, had experienced occasional UL. Of these, the majority (79%) had symptoms of stress urinary leakage and 21% had urge symptoms. Two percent were incontinent according to the definition of the International Continence Society (ICS). In a multivariate analysis age, inability to interrupt the urine flow and high-impact physical activity turned out to be independent risk factors for UL and thus should be observed together with traditional factors concerning UL in nulliparous women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurotec, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Hospital, SE-14183, Huddinge, Sweden. kerstin_eliasson@neurotec.ki.se
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eliasson
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nordlander
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mattsson
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hammarström
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010298:Parity; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014554:Urination