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...incontinence is a widespread disorder that may affect one in four women and perhaps as many as one-third of older women in their lifetime, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). While there are several medical solutions to treat this common problem, the study's authors say that one of the simplest and most effective ways to ward it off is to maintain a healthy weight...
...really, really common in women, even teenagers, to leak once in a blue moon," says Nygaard, perhaps when they cough during an illness, bounce on a trampoline or laugh extremely hard. But the JAMA study reveals that moderate to severe incontinence is also a widespread condition. More than half of all women who suffer from it, however, never bring it up with their doctors, according to previous studies. "Partly it's embarrassment, or they don't think there is any treatment, or that the only treatment is surgical," says Nygaard...
Increasingly, however, advertisements for urinary incontinence drugs have made women aware of the prevalence of the condition and its treatments. Not so for fecal incontinence, says Nygaard, which she calls a "profoundly embarrassing" condition for most patients. It can be attributed to muscle damage during childbirth, but a more common cause is irritable bowel syndrome. Most patients are shocked when they discover just how common prolapse and leakage problems are - about one in 10 women will have surgery to address the disorders, Nygaard says...
...were obesity and childbirth. Although the odds of suffering a pelvic-floor disorder were lower for thin women who had not been pregnant, there is no way to avoid the risk altogether, Nygaard says. But there are few simple things women can do to lower risk, including changing two common habits. For one thing, Nygaard says, she sees too many of her patients lugging around one-liter bottles of water. This trend makes it more likely that women will drink too much water, leading to what doctors call urge incontinence, a condition that may exacerbate incontinence due to other causes...
...common theme is what’s popular and what people are talking about,” he said...