Differences in urinary incontinence between Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women: a population-based study.
OBJECTIVE
To compare the prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI) between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White women in a population-based study.


METHODS
The prevalence of moderate to severe UI, defined as Sandvik severity score of >or=3, was assessed in relation to ethnicity by stratification, age adjustment and logistic regression models among 250 Hispanic and 491 non-Hispanic White women in Colorado, USA, who were participants in a breast cancer case-control study.


RESULTS
Hispanic women reported more stress UI (odds ratio 1.7, P = 0.005) and mixed UI (odds ratio 1.8, P = 0.005) than did non-Hispanic White women. These higher prevalences were largely associated with ethnic differences in parity, body mass index, diabetes, hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy.


CONCLUSIONS
The prevalence of moderate to severe UI in Colorado is higher among Hispanic women than among non-Hispanic white women. This difference is largely compatible with differences in reproductive history, adiposity and diabetes.
Daneshgari
Firouz
F
Glickman Urological Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH OH 44195, USA. daneshf@ccf.org
Imrey
Peter B
PB
Risendal
Betsy
B
Dwyer
Andrea
A
Barber
Matthew D
MD
Byers
Tim
T
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology*; D003120:Colorado / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology; D044465:White People