title: Prevalence and related factors of urinary incontinence among Hebei women of China.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and related factors of different types of urinary incontinence (UI) among Hebei women in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 2,500 women aged 20 years or more were sampled and interviewed face-to-face by well-trained interviewers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among these women, 35.2% (862/2,448) had UI. The prevalence of stress, urge, and mixed UI was 26.4% (647/2,448), 1.9% (47/2,448), and 6.9% (168/2,448), respectively. In multivariable logistic regression, age, constipation, pelvic organ prolapse, number of abortions, and cesarean sections were associated with both stress and mixed UI; body mass index, dysmenorrhea, vaginitis and cervicitis, fetal weight, and dystocia were associated with stress UI only; age of menarche and dystocia were associated with urge UI only, and living in a city or countryside, a history of pelvic operation, urinary infection, diseases of the respiratory system, heart disease, and alcohol consumption with mixed UI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  UI is a highly prevalent condition among women in Hebei Province, PR China. Stress, urge, and mixed UI not only have some related factors in common but also have some different ones. Economic condition and a lack of UI-related knowledge are factors keeping patients from seeing a doctor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, PLA Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, PR China. xiaohuawu65 @ yahoo.com
authors.forename: Xiao-Hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Xiao-Xu
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Kai-Hui
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Rui-Min
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yan-Xia
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yan-Ge
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D053202:Urinary Incontinence, Urge / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy