61% of US women have urinary incontinence — Vitamin D may help

Updated Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in Women: 2015-2018 National Population-Based Survey Data

April 2022 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001127

"61.8% had UI, corresponding to 78,297,094 adult U.S. women, with

• 32.4% of all women reporting symptoms at least monthly.

Of those with UI,

• 37.5% had stress urinary incontinence,
• 22.0% had urgency urinary incontinence,
• 31.3% had mixed symptoms, and
• 9.2% had unspecified incontinence. "

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