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J S Borgen

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PubMed2001

Prevalence of stress and urge urinary incontinence in elite athletes and controls.

PURPOSE: The purposes of the present study were to examine the prevalence of stress and urge incontinence in female elite athletes and controls, assess a possible association between urge and stress incontinence and eating disorders, and assess a possible association between stress and urge incontinence and menstrual irregularity. METHODS: This was a two-stage study including a screening part by questionnaire and a clinical interview. Questions included in the questionnaire were related to training history, menstrual history, eating behavior, and stress and urge incontinence. DSM-IV criteria were used in the clinical part of the study to diagnose eating disorders in those classified as being at risk. The total population of female elite athletes, defined as one representing the national team for junior or senior (N = 660), and age-matched nonathlete controls (N = 765) aged 15-39 were asked to answer the questionnaire. The response rate was 87% and 75% for athletes and controls, respectively. RESULTS: Four percent of the athletes and 33% of the controls had delivered (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in prevalence of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in the athletes and controls, 41% and 39%, respectively. No significant difference was observed between sport groups. No difference in the frequency of urge incontinence was found when athletes (16%) and controls (19%) were compared. Twenty percent of the elite athletes and 9% of the controls met the DSM-IV criteria for eating disorder. The prevalence of SUI (49.5%) and urge incontinence (20%) in eating disordered athletes was significantly higher than in healthy athletes, 38.8% (P = 0.003) and 15% (P = 0.048). No difference in prevalence was observed when eating disordered nonathletes (39%) and healthy nonathletes (39%) were compared (P = 0.426). CONCLUSION: There is a high prevalence of stress and urge incontinence in female elite athletes. The frequency of SUI and urge incontinence was significantly higher in eating disordered athletes compared with healthy athletes.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2000

Asthma and wheezing among Norwegian elite athletes.

PURPOSE: The objectives were to estimate the prevalence of self-reports of asthma and wheezing among Norwegian elite athletes compared with the general population and to estimate the associations between asthma and types of sports, exercise and team level. METHODS: The study population included all Norwegian elite athletes on the national junior and senior teams in 1997 (N = 1620) and a random sample from the general population (N = 1680). The surveys included items for asthma, respiratory symptoms, the history of participation in sports, sports events, and exercise and team level. The associations between the exposure variables and the outcomes adjusting for potential confounding factors were estimated using logistic regression. Crude (c) and adjusted odds ratio (aOR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) are presented. RESULTS: The prevalence of asthma was greater among athletes (10.0%) compared with that in the general population (6.9%) and remained so after controlling for confounders, aOR = 1.5 (95%CI 1.1-2.1). The risk of asthma was highest in sports requiring strength and endurance. This was the case for comparisons between athletes and the general population, aOR = 3.5 (1.6-7.6) for strength and aOR = 2.2 (1.4-3.5) for endurance sports. Comparisons within the sample of athletes using technical sports as the reference category revealed similar results, aOR = 3.0 (1.1-8.0) and aOR = 2.0 (1.0-4.3), respectively. Furthermore, asthma was more common among female than male athletes (aOR 1.7 (1.1-2.7)). Training more than 20 h x wk(-1) was associated with asthma when compared with levels of training less than 10 h x wk(-1) (aOR 1.9 (1.0-4.1)). CONCLUSION: These results indicate that asthma is more common among athletes compared with the general population. Asthma among athletes may define a subgroup of asthma cases for whom etiology is related to extensive exercise.

Adult↗
PubMed1999

[Eating disorders--how is treatment organized?].

A nation-wide survey of the organisation and efficiency of public health care services for Norwegian patients with eating disorders was conducted among the heads of medical and psychiatric units (N = 261). Only the number of patients treated predicted special clinical routines or measures to increase the clinical competence, and not geographical location of institutions or the national health authorities' distribution of treatment recommendations. To improve the quality of the health care services, the informants stressed the importance of increased clinical competence, more resources enabling more patients to be treated, as well as improved cooperation between the medical and psychiatric treatment units.

Anorexia Nervosa↗