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Posted by Liz on Feb 1, 2013 in Uncategorized, urinary incontinence/stress incontinence/overactive bladder |
Urinary incontinence, that is, involuntary leakage of urine, affects up to 30% of women in the United States and is expected to grow exponentially as the population ages. Usually classified by type, it can be devastating to quality of life and overall wellbeing. The three main types include:
In the interest of full disclosure, I was immersed in the topic for almost 5 years; I was acting in an advisory capacity to Merck Consumer Care who recently received marketing approval for?Oxytrol For Women. Oxytrol for Women is?an over the counter transdermal patch for overactive bladder. However, that?s not why I am writing about it; I have wanted to address urinary incontinence for a long time on this blog but could not do so since I had a conflict of interest. Now that that conflict is gone, I am finally able to share information, and more specifically, whether or not urinary incontinence is linked with menopause and hormone deficiency as estrogen starts to decline. ?Reports suggest that roughly 8% to 27% of menopausal women suffer.
Until now, only a few studies have truly focused on women between the ages of 45 and 60, i.e. what I often call the ?menopausal set.? More importantly (and what you need to know): when French researchers conducted a thorough review of 29 studies, culled down from an initial total of 488, they found that the connection between menopause and urinary incontinence is tenuous at best.
In fact, in one of the largest studies that they looked at ? the Study of Women?s Health Across the Nation (SWAN, which followed 1,529 women annually for 6 years? they found that the data show that during perimenopause, women have a one and a half times greater risk for urinary incontinence, but this risk disappears when they reach menopause. In an associated study, SWAN researchers reported that data linking menopause to a worsening of incontinence symptoms appears to be due to weight gain and not hormones. Ironically, other studies have linked the decline in estrogen to improvements in urine incontinence symptoms.
So, what about HRT? Where does it fit into the picture if the link between menopause/estrogen decline is weak? Well, when the researchers looked at that data, they found that type of incontinence and how HRT is administered does matter. Both the Nurses Health Study and the esteemed Cochrane Database have shown that oral HRT increases incontinence risk and worsens symptoms, while topical treatments may actually improve symptoms and number of episodes.
The researchers write that menopause has little if any impact on the risk of urinary incontinence in general, especially when other factors such as weight gain or age are taken into account. The good news for women with stress incontinence is that the condition appears to decline after menopause, although, granted, a mixed bag may take its place. And oral HRT? Buyer beware! If you?ve got either stress incontinence or overactive bladder, it may worsen your symptoms!
Urinary incontinence may be as much as taboo subject as vaginal atrophy. But it?s definitely one that needs to be talked about, especially as more and more women transition into midlife. Fortunately, it looks like menopause is not the cause, which should bring a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, gotta go? Talk to a health practitioner. Stress incontinence can often be successfully controlled through pelvic floor exercise, and overactive bladder symptoms may benefit through a combination of exercise and drugs. The main thing is to realize that you don?t have suffer alone; there a lot of leakage going on.
Source: http://flashfree.me/2013/02/01/gotta-go-it-may-not-be-the-pause/
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The glitzy sheen of that Retina Display MacBook Pro or MacBook Air probably tarnished a little when you realized you'd need to sacrifice a USB or Thunderbolt if you wanted Ethernet connectivity. Just in time for Macworld, Kanex is shuttling out DualRole, a three-port USB 3.0 hub and Ethernet adapter that'll swell your connectivity options while on the road. Bus-powered, you can also add a 5v power adapter to juice your gadgets at the same time. It'll set you back $69 and is available from right about now.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/30/kanex-dualrole/
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Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald defends the city of Athens in a retrial of Socrates while.former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb defends the Greek philosopher in a retrial that serves as a fundraiser for Chicago's National Hellenic Museum. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald defends the city of Athens in a retrial of Socrates while.former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb defends the Greek philosopher in a retrial that serves as a fundraiser for Chicago's National Hellenic Museum. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb defense attorney for the Greek philosopher Socrates pleads his case in a retrial that serves as a fundraiser for Chicago's National Hellenic Museum. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald defends the city of Athens and listens to a defense attorney in a retrial of Socrates that serves as a fundraiser for Chicago's National Hellenic Museum. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb defense attorney for the Greek philosopher Socrates listens to the prosecution in a retrial that serves as a fundraiser for Chicago's National Hellenic Museum. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
CHICAGO (AP) ? Patrick Fitzgerald has prosecuted mobsters, terrorists, a White House aide and two Illinois governors.
On Thursday, the former top prosecutor got a crack at Socrates. Yes, that Socrates, the Greek philosopher.
Fitzgerald, one of the nation's highest profile federal prosecutors until he recently entered private practice, represented Athens in a do-over of the 399 B.C. trial of Socrates on charges of corrupting the ancient city's youth and disrespecting its gods.
Socrates' legal counsel at the mock trial in Chicago ? part of a fundraising event for the National Hellenic Museum ? was no slouch himself.
It was Dan Webb, a high-priced lawyer who defended former Gov. George Ryan in a corruption case brought by Fitzgerald. Ryan eventually lost at a trial prosecuted by assistant attorneys working for Fitzgerald.
The result Thursday night? Jurors ? an audience of around 1,000 people ? found Socrates guilty by a narrow vote. They spared the philosopher death by hemlock, however, and called for a fine instead.
As U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald gained a reputation for getting defendants to plead out before trial. But he told The Associated Press by phone hours before Thursday's event that a last-minute plea deal with Socrates was out of reach.
"Socrates," he explained, "does not seem to be much of a compromiser."
In the 24 centuries since Socrates' trial and execution by poison hemlock, the prevailing sentiment has been that Athens railroaded the 70-year-old gadfly, who was fond of questioning bedrock Athenian assumptions about the world.
Fitzgerald, though, complained that the only extensive account of the trial is from Plato, a student and booster of Socrates.
"I don't think Athenians ever got a fair shake. Plato only gave one side of the story," he said.
Impiety was seen as an egregious crime in ancient Greece, Fitzgerald's co-counsel told jurors Thursday night, because it was thought that an individual's disrespect of the gods could invite their wrath in the form of plagues that would devastate the entire city.
"He dissed Zeus ... He called the Moon dirt," said Pat Collins, another former prosecutor representing Athens. "Messing with the gods brings real harm ... The gods have a memory, and they carry a grudge"
One judge presiding over the retrial was Richard Posner, who sits on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Socrates was "a crank" who "encouraged the brats of Athens," he said, but wasn't a threat to society.
In that vein, another of the presiding judges said he could only see fit to impose a minimal fine in light of the jury's decision Thursday night.
"I'd fine him two bucks and let it go at that," said William Bauer, another federal judge.
The retrial wasn't meant to be a reenactment and so participating attorneys and judges weren't required to don togas or other period garb, Fitzgerald said gratefully earlier in the day.
"There are crimes against nature, too," he laughed. "That would be a crime against nature if we showed up in a togas."
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