Patients with cardiovascular risk factors are more likely to also experience urgency urinary incontinence (UUI), according to UK researchers. They also said their study findings indicated that severe urgency UUI was a “distinct disease” from milder forms of the condition.The researchers, from University College London and King’s College London, looked at data on 1,762 participants in a Medical Research Council survey who reported having incontinence at the age of 68. The prevalence of urinary incontinence was 15% in men and 54% in women. UUI was the most common subtype in men, while there were similar proportions of UUI and stress urinary incontinence in women, with it being reported by 12% of men and 19% of women. Read more.
Source: Nursing Times online, March 9, 2018