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... Women’s silent health problem: Study finds fecal incontinence is prevalent in US women Weitere Förderer des Forums Hauptsponsoren des Forums: Content Partner des Forums Medizin Gesundheit University of Michigan Health System 18.01.2006 Women’s silent health problem: Study finds fecal incontinence is prevalent in US women Numbers high among older women, women who have had several babies and women who have major depression It’s a topic that is discussed so infrequently – for reasons that are easy to understand – that it may seem it isn’t much of a problem.

But new research shows that fecal incontinence is prevalent among U.S.

women, especially those in older age groups, those who have had numerous babies, women whose deliveries were assisted by forceps or vacuum devices, and those who have had a hysterectomy.

Many women in the study who had fecal incontinence also had another medical condition, such as major depression or diabetes, and often experienced urinary incontinence in addition to FI.

The findings are reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

"Increased attention should be paid to this debilitating condition, especially considering the aging of our population and the available treatments for FI," says senior author Dee E.

Fenner, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and director of gynecology, at the University of Michigan Medical School.

"It is very important to the health of women that clinicians...

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