INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: The study seeks to determine whether a urinary cough and jump stress test is reproducible and whether there is a relationship between a stress test and a 24-h pad test and our subjective Stress Incontinence Index.
METHODS: Multicenter prospective cohort study of women with subjective stress incontinence. Each patient completed a validated Stress and Urge Incontinence Questionnaire and a 24-h pad test and performed two standardized cough and jump stress tests.
RESULTS: All 108 women were incontinent during both the first and second stress tests. There was a large variation in leakage and the leakage was significantly larger during stress test 2 than during stress test 1 (P < 0.02). Correlations found between the stress test and the 24hour pad test and between the stress test and the Stress Incontinence Index were poor.
CONCLUSION: The cough and jump stress test is reproducible and able to document stress leakage.
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Berild GH, Kulseng-Hanssen S. Are you the author?
Gynekologene på Kolbotn, Kolbotn, Norway.
Reference: Int Urogynecol J. 2012 Apr 19. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1007/s00192-012-1733-z
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22527539
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