Depression In Women Over 50
Psychosomatics 47:147-151, April 2006 by Simone N. Vigod, M.D. and Donna E. Stewart, M.D., FRCPC
The authors explored the relationship between urinary incontinence and major depression through data from the Canadian Community Health Survey. The prevalence of depression was 15.5% in women with urinary incontinence (30% in women ages 1844) and only 9.2% in women without urinary incontinence.
Women with both incontinence and depression were more likely to have stress, increased visits to a...
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