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First and foremost, the Continence Center of BHS is here as a resource for you or your patients. We're available to help answer your clinical questions, or to help your staff arrange for a referral.

The irony is continence issues are often too embarrassing for patients to raise with their physicians, yet 80% of those who seek treatment experience a cure or improvement. We encourage you to take the lead in exploring this subject with your female and male patients of all ages so that they understand how common - and how readily treatable - the problem is. 

Did You Know?

  • Fewer than half of women who suffer from urinary incontinence seek treatment.
  • Urinary incontinence affects 17% of men over age 60.
  • While about three-quarters of American women experience urinary leakage at some time in their lives, studies show that 7 - 10% experience severe or more-frequent leakage.
  • Most studies of male incontinence have found a predominance of urge incontinence (40%-80%), followed by mixed incontinence (10%-30%) and stress incontinence (<10%).

The information above is contained in a study that can be found on the web site of the US Centers for Disease Control. Click here to view the study.


 

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