Urinary Incontinence after Vaginal Delivery or Cesarean Section
Centre for Advanced Study · University of Bergen · +3 more institutions
Abstract
It is uncertain whether women who deliver by cesarean section have an increased risk of urinary incontinence as compared with nulliparous women and whether women who deliver vaginally have an even higher risk.
We studied 15,307 women enrolled in the Epidemiology of Incontinence in the County of Nord-Trøndelag (EPINCONT) study, which involved a community-based cohort. The data base for this study was linked to data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway. We included women who answered questions related to urinary incontinence, were younger than 65 years of age, and had had no deliveries, cesarean sections only, or vaginal deliveries only.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 28.51
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 23
Authors
4- GRGuri RørtveitCorresponding
Centre for Advanced Study, University of Bergen, Primary HealthCare, Primary Health Care
- AKAnne Kjersti Daltveit
Primary HealthCare, University of Bergen, Cancer Registry of Norway, Primary Health Care
- YSYngvild S Hannestad
Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Primary HealthCare
- SHSteinar Hunskaar
Primary Health Care, Primary HealthCare, University of Bergen
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Urinary incontinence
- Odds ratio
- Confidence interval
- Vaginal delivery
- Obstetrics
- Gynecology
- Epidemiology
- Good health and well-being