Abstract
Three hundred and twenty four patients aged less than 35 years in different pregnancy periods were examined to establish the incidence and pattern of impaired urination during pregnancy and to assess significant risk factors in pregnant women with symptoms of urinary incontinence. The questionnaire "The specific urination during pregnancy" and uroflowmetry on an ELLIPS-4 apparatus (ANDROMEDA, Germany) were used during the study. Impaired urination was found to occur in 146 (48.7%) pregnant women. Of them, there were imperative urinary disorders in 83 (56.8%) patients, stress urinary incontinence in 30 (20.5%), the mixed form in 33 (22.7%) women.
Pregnancy and labor are referred to as risk factors of urinary incontinence. The women with increased body mass index and a history of labor complications (maternal passage soft tissue tears, perineo- and episiotomy, and large fetus delivery) form a special risk group.