Urodynamic Studies Of Overactive Bladder With Or Without Stress Urinary Incontinence

Backgrounds and AimsOveractive bladder (OAB) is defined as urgency, with or without urge incontinence usually with frequency and nocturia. OAB could show detrusor overactivity (DO) during urodynamic study. This term was as a symptom-based definition, to replace the urodynamics-based definition of 'detrusor overactivity'. Milsom I et al recently have assessed in detail the prevalence of OAB in the adult population. 16,776 population-based interviews were conducted across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Overall, the prevalence of OAB was reported to be 16.6% and 16.9% in women. The urological institute of Peking university carried out an epidemiological survey indicates that the incidence of OAB plus stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in females older than 18 years old was 40.4%. OAB exerts great influence on patients 'life. Telolen et al found out that daily life, physical exercise, sleep, work, social activity and sexual intercourse had been...