1 Aims: Our main objective was to analyze individual determinants that lead middle-2 aged women to seek medical care for UI. 3 Methods: Observational longitudinal study among GAZEL cohort participants: 2640 4 women aged 50-62 completed a self-administered questionnaire at baseline. Eight 5 years later (2008) 2273 (86%) responded to a follow-up questionnaire. Seeking care 6 for UI was defined as...

AIMS Our aim was to study risk factors associated with prevalence, incidence, and remission of UI 4 and 12 years after first delivery. METHODS Seven hundred seventy-four nulliparous women who gave birth in 1996 in two French maternity units at term received a questionnaire about their urinary symptoms in 2000 and again in 2008. Two hundred thirty-six women returned a questionnaire about UI 4 ...

PURPOSE To determine an objective cutoff value (COV) for urinary incontinence (UI) using the Expanded Prostate Cancer Composite (EPIC) score after radical prostatectomy (RP). METHODS From 2004-2013, all RP patients at our institution completed the EPIC urinary domain (EPIC-UD) questionnaire preoperatively and 6 weeks; 3, 6, 9, 12, and 18 months postoperatively; and yearly thereafter. The EPIC...

BACKGROUND Previous research has shown that the severity of symptoms of urinary incontinence impacts on quality of life and wellbeing. The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between female urinary incontinence and mental wellbeing. This involved analyses comparing those with UI and those without to determine whether any differences in wellbeing were modified by demographic f...

BACKGROUND Since 1971, the general U.S. population has been monitored for dietary iodine sufficiency by urinary iodine (UI) measurements through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). This report presents the UI levels for the population participating in NHANES 2003-2004. It is the third assessment of the U.S. population since NHANES III (1988-1994), when the median UI l...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) [OMG, Unified Modeling Language Specification, Version 2.0, Technical Report, Object Management Group hhttp://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/uml.htmi, 2005] provides system architects working on analysis and design (A&D) with one consistent language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems, as well ...

If entitlement to UI bene…ts must be earned with employment, generous UI is an additional bene…t to an employment relationship, so it promotes job creation. If individuals are risk neutral, UI is fairly priced, and the UI system prevents moralhazard unemployed workers, the generosity of UI has no e¤ect on unemployment. As with Ricardian Equivalence, this result should be useful to pinpoint the ...

Urinary Incontinence (UI) affects many older adults. Some of its deleterious consequences include stress, major depression, diminished quality of life, sexual dysfunction, and familial discord. Of the various mental health problems identified in the literature as being comorbid with UI, the most notable one continues to be depression. Despite a wealth of research contributions on this topic, th...

AIMS Our main objective was to analyze individual determinants that lead middle-aged women to seek medical care for urinary incontinence (UI). METHODS Observational longitudinal study among GAZEL cohort participants: 2,640 women aged 50-62 completed a self-administered questionnaire at baseline. Eight years later (2008) 2,273 (86%) responded to a follow-up questionnaire. Seeking care for UI w...

CONTEXT Urinary incontinence (UI) is a chronic debilitating disease which is often under reported, but laid significant impact on one's quality of life (QoL) thus is of public health importance. AIMS The aim of this study is to find out proportion of rural women have UI, its associated risk factors and treatment-seeking behavior, QoL of affected women. METHODS This was a cross-sectional cli...