Even a moderate amount of weight loss can go a long way toward relieving symptoms of female urinary incontinence in obese women.
A 2009 study by the University of California, San Francisco showed that women who lost as little as eight percent of their body weight experienced an average 47% reduction in episodes of both stress incontinence and urge incontinence, with some seeing the number of incontinence episodes drop by an astounding 70%.
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Over 10 million women experience Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI). Stress Urinary Incontinence is the involuntary leakage of urine when pressure is placed upon the bladder. The supporting tissues around the urethra no longer provide adequate support to prevent leaking of urine.
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