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- Title
Association between urinary incontinence and bone health in Korean elderly women based on data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
- Authors
Ji Hyun Moon; Yun Hwan Oh; Mi Hee Kong; Jung Sik Huh; Hyeon Ju Kim
- Abstract
Background: Urinary incontinence and impaired bone health are significant health problems among the elderly. We evaluated the impact of urinary incontinence on bone health in the elderly. Material and Methods: Our study used data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination. We included 901 women aged ≥ 65 years. The bone mineral density was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Impaired bone health was characterized by lumbar spine, femoral neck, or total femur T-scores of ≤ -1.0 SD. Each participant's incontinence status was recorded using constructed questionnaires. Results: The prevalence of self-reported urinary incontinence in the women aged ≥ 65 years was 9.5%. After adjustments for age, height, and weight, the T-scores for the lumbar spine of the urinary incontinence and the no urinary continence groups were -2.48 ± 0.11 and -2.37 ± 0.03, respectively and didn't show the difference between them (p = 0.390). Likewise, the T-scores for the total femur and femoral neck were not significantly different. After adjusting for covariates, we found no statistically significant association between impaired bone health with urinary incontinence. Conclusions: This study found urinary incontinence was not an independent risk factor of impaired bone health in the elderly women.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE diseases; CONFIDENCE intervals; FEMUR; INTERVIEWING; LUMBAR vertebrae; MULTIVARIATE analysis; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; RISK assessment; SURVEYS; URINARY incontinence; WOMEN'S health; LOGISTIC regression analysis; BONE density; DATA analysis software; PHOTON absorptiometry; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 2019, Vol 16, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2516-3507
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29333/ejgm/99586