Proteins in urine could play important role in stress incontinence
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
Incontinence is the world's most common chronic condition. However the problem continues to be a taboo subject: two out of three sufferers do not talk about it, preventing access to successful treatment. Stress incontinence, in which urine is lost involuntarily when coughing, laughing or sneezing, is the most common form of incontinence, affecting 60 per cent of all cases. How it develops is largely unresearched. Scientists have now been able to demonstrate that proteins in the urine could play an important role.