Journal article
The Prevalence of Clinically Meaningful Overactive Bladder: Bother and Quality of Life Results from the Population-Based FINNO Study
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Wide variation exists in prevalence estimates of overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome.
OBJECTIVE: To determine how the frequency of urinary urgency or urgency urinary incontinence (UUI)--the cornerstone symptoms of OAB--affects symptom-related bother, health-related quality of life (HRQL), and ultimately clinically meaningful prevalence.
Authors
Vaughan CP; Johnson TM; Ala-Lipasti MA; Cartwright R; Tammela TLJ; Taari K; Auvinen A; Tikkinen KAO
Journal
European Urology, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 629–636
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 2011
DOI
10.1016/j.eururo.2011.01.031
ISSN
0302-2838