The group prospectively investigated the relationship between caffeine intake and incidental urinary incontinence in 65,176 community dwelling women, age 37 to 79 who were part of the Nurse's Health Study. These women did not have urinary incontinence. Incident UI was identified from questionnaires during a 4 year follow-up period. Daily caffeine intake was measured using validated food frequency.
Overall, women with the highest caffeine intake had a moderate significantly increased risk for developing incontinence compared to woman with the lowest intake. There was a significant trend of increasing risks with increasing intake. This risk appeared focused in incident urgency incontinence but not stress or mixed.
Their conclusion was that high caffeine intake is associated with modest increase in incident urgency incontinence and they felt that perhaps women should be counseled against high caffeine intake. This research further supports for the argument that caffeine negatively effects urinary continence.
Presented by Ying Jura, Mary Townsend, Gary Curhan, Neil Resnick, and Francine Grodstein at the Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology (SUFU) 2011 Winter Meeting - March 1 - 5, 2011 - Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Reported for UroToday by Diane K. Newman, RNC, MSN, CRNP, FAAN and Continence Nurse Practitioner Specialist - University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
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