Incontinencia urinaria

Abstract

Little is known about the natural evolution of the urinary incontinence as the age of beginning, the incidence rates, the advancement and the spontaneous remission. To date, all the studies have been made in individuals of white race and data of different ethnic groups are required. Though the urinary incontinence is a symptom of many disorders, define the risk factors is useful to identify persons of high risk the same as for an agreed effort of preventive type. Also, the knowledge of the factors that favor the urinary incontinence is important to identify which is the type of component of the incontinence that affects to the patient, between those which are the effort incontinence and that of urgency. The signs of the urinary incontinence are objective parameters of the loss of urine or the incontinence crisis and they can include a record of frequency, an effort test with cough, a sanitary towel test, the use of a colouring to dye the urine and to confirm the loss, or tests of urodynamic diagnosis. Before proceed with invading treatments as the surgery, it is advisable to confirm the presence or intensity of the urinary incontinence by one or more methods.