enough to discuss their problem with their doctor, even though over 75 % said that the OAB interfered with their lives (by avoiding meetings, ruining relationships, etc.).
..... Another study found that women with any type of urinary incontinence tend to be significantly less physically active than their continent sisters, which can in turn have other major health consequences since being less active is related to higher risks of obesity and other health problems, as well as higher rates of psychological problems such as depression and isolation.
..... The interesting thing, though, is that urinary incontinence seems to affect different people in differing manners, so that according to a study from Europe, while some people’s lives are quite adversely affected by even mild degrees of incontinence, others tend to function very well with even major symptoms.
..... OAB is said to be twice as common in women as it is in men, although I’m certain this ratio is probably much more lopsided than that since women tend not to complain about bladder symptoms (indeed, about most symptoms) nearly as much as men do. After all, men often think they’re suffering a terminal disease when they have a cold, so just imagine the distress – and accompanying vigorous complaints – that arise when a man discovers he can’t control his you-know-what-down-there nearly as well as he’s been used to controlling it.
..... What causes OAB? Aging seems to be the most important contributing factor (you don’t, for example, see many 25-year-olds stamping around while lined up for the washrooms during intermissions at the opera), although other factors that play a strong role in how often someone feels the frequent urge to pee or suffers from some degree of incontinence include:
• trauma to the urethra (women can suffer trauma to
the urethra and/or bladder from pregnancies and
labour, so the more pregnancies a woman has, the
more likely she is to end up with some incontinence)
• the length and strength of the urethra (women have
much shorter urethras than men)
• chronic urinary infections
• obesity
• other bladder conditions such as interstitial cystitis
• neurological problems
• some drugs
• surgery (in men, for example, prostate surgery can
result in incontinence)
• menopause
• diabetes, and
• (duhh!), the amount and types of fluids a person |
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