Re: First vaginal delivery at an older age: does it carry an extra risk for the development of stress urinary incontinence? Groutz A, Helpman L, Gold R, Pauzner D, Lessing JB, Gordon D. 2007. Neurourol Urodyn 26:779-782

Neurourol Urodyn. 2009;28(4):365-6. doi: 10.1002/nau.20608.

Abstract

The conclusions of Groutz et al must be interpreted with extreme prudence. An accurate response to the two questions asked by the authors would require to compare, in a cohort of young women of the same age before their first pregnancy, the prevalence of SUI several years later (at the same age for all the women) as a function of parity, age at first delivery and mode of delivery and to analyse, in a randomised trial (elective cesarean versus vaginal delivery) the effect of cesarean according to the woman’s age.

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aging / physiology*
  • Delivery, Obstetric / adverse effects*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Parity / physiology
  • Pregnancy
  • Research Design
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Urinary Incontinence, Stress / epidemiology*
  • Urinary Incontinence, Stress / etiology
  • Vagina / physiology*
  • Young Adult