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Urge urinary incontinence was associated with increased risk of falls and non-spinal, non-traumatic fractures in older women

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebn.4.1.26

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    Brown JS, Vittinghoff E, Wyman JF, et al for the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures Research Group.Urinary incontinence: does it increase risk for falls and fractures?J Am Geriatr Soc2000 Jul;48:721–5OpenUrlPubMedWeb of Science

    QUESTION: In community dwelling older white women, does weekly or more frequent urge and stress urinary incontinence increase risk of falls and non-spinal, non-traumatic fractures?

    Design

    Cohort study with mean follow up of 3 years (Study of Osteoporotic Fractures [SOF]).

    Setting

    4 clinical care centres in Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, USA.

    Participants

    6049 community dwelling, ambulatory, white women who were ≥65 years of age (mean age 79 y), attended 5 SOF clinic or home visits, completed a physical examination and self administered questionnaire, provided data on urinary incontinence, and returned ≥1 postcard reporting falls after visit 5. Institutionalised women were excluded.

    Assessment of risk factors

    Live births; hysterectomy status; smoking status; alcohol use; walking; total weekly excursions outside of the …

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    Footnotes

    • Source of funding: National Institute on Aging.

    • For correspondence: Dr J S Brown, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 2330 Post Street, Suite 220, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. Fax +1 415 353 9509.

    • A modified version of this abstract appears in ACP Journal Club.