Issue Codes Incontinence Products for Women
Women who smoke cigarettes appear to have an increased risk of bladder symptoms, new research suggests.
An international research team, including scientists at Imperial College London, surveyed 2,002 Finnish women between the ages of 18 and 79 in order to investigate the links between smoking and bladder symptoms, such as female incontinence .
They found that 12.6 per cent of women suffered from nocturia – a need to get up during the night to urinate – and 9.7 per cent from urinary urgency.
A further 11.2 per cent of women said they were affected by stress urinary incontinence and 3.1 per cent by urge incontinence .
Analysis revealed a link between smoking and urinary urgency and frequency, but not with nocturia or stress urinary incontinence.
Writing in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, the study authors confirmed: “Urgency and frequency are approximately three times more common among current than never smokers.
“These results suggest an additional rationale for smoking cessation in women seeking medical attention for bladder symptoms and highlight the diversity between such symptoms.”
Figures from the NHS Information Centre suggest that 20 per cent of adult women in England smoked in 2009.
Issue Codes Incontinence Products for Women
Women who smoke cigarettes appear to have an increased risk of bladder symptoms, new research suggests.
An international research team, including scientists at Imperial College London, surveyed 2,002 Finnish women between the ages of 18 and 79 in order to investigate the links between smoking and bladder symptoms, such as female incontinence .
They found that 12.6 per cent of women suffered from nocturia – a need to get up during the night to urinate – and 9.7 per cent from urinary urgency.
A further 11.2 per cent of women said they were affected by stress urinary incontinence and 3.1 per cent by urge incontinence .
Analysis revealed a link between smoking and urinary urgency and frequency, but not with nocturia or stress urinary incontinence.
Writing in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, the study authors confirmed: “Urgency and frequency are approximately three times more common among current than never smokers.
“These results suggest an additional rationale for smoking cessation in women seeking medical attention for bladder symptoms and highlight the diversity between such symptoms.”
Figures from the NHS Information Centre suggest that 20 per cent of adult women in England smoked in 2009.