Women live with incontinence, but it can be treated

By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) - Older women often silently suffer from treatable urinary incontinence, researchers say. When doctors asked about urinary incontinence and offered to treat it, women were two to three times more likely to have a reduction in symptoms than when doctors ignored the condition until patients complained, they found. “It’s very sad because most women don’t ask for help because they think there is no help for them,” lead researcher Dr. Els Visser told Reuters Health. “What we proved with this study is that there is help for them,” she said. ...



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