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1Kirwan Hospital for Women.
Background:
Urinary incontinence is a distressing and embarrassing condition suffered by at least 1 in 10 women. Incontinence is not just a disease of the elderly: 40% of women aged 30 to 50 suffer from incontinence and a surprising 11% of young women who have never borne children may also experience it.
Objective:
Incontinence unlike other chronic diseases can be cured in up to 70% of patients.
Discussion:
The cost of incontinence is immense. Studies based on health care costs of urine incontinence in the USA indicate expenses as high as 2% of the national health care budget. Australia spends nearly 1 billion dollars per year on incontinence aids and this represents only a fraction of the total cost of incontinence.
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