Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSChronic cough and stress urinary incontinence link questioned
US researchers have found no statistically significant difference in the prevalence of stress urinary incontinence between patients with or without a chronic cough.
However the results of the cross-sectional prospective survey identified that those with a chronic cough have increased urinary frequency. The researches suggest that this increase in frequency may be used to prevent SUI and this may mask a larger difference between the two groups.
It is suggested that a chronic cough leads to increases in intra-abdominal pressure which could cause or aggravate symptoms of stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
Urologia Internationalis (2009);83: 2, 181-6
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