Electroacupuncture for stress-related urinary incontinence in elderly women: data analysis from two randomised controlled studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the efficacy of electroacupuncture (EA) in elderly and non-elderly women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or stress-predominant mixed urinary incontinence (MUI).

Methods

This study was a secondary analysis of two randomised controlled trials involving 252 women with SUI and 132 women with stress-predominant MUI who were treated with the same EA regimen. Elderly women were defined as those aged >60 years. The main outcome measure was the proportion of patients with ≥50% decrease in the mean 72-hour urinary incontinence episode frequency (IEF) from baseline to week 6. Overall, 1004 women were recruited in the SUI and MUI trials. In the EA group, those with urge-predominant or balanced MUI at baseline were excluded from the current study, resulting in

SUBMITTER: Sun B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9120373 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature