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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.
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Article Type: Original Article
ELECTRON J GEN MED, Volume 16, Issue 3, June 2019, Article No: em140
https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/99586
Publication date: 16 May 2019
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