Hormone Therapy and Incontinence in Younger Postmenopausal Women

Results from large, randomized clinical trials have indicated that postmenopausal women aged 60 years and older who use hormone therapy (HT) have a higher risk of urinary incontinence (UI) compared with similarly aged women who don’t use HT after menopause. Whether UI is associated with HT in younger postmenopausal women, however, is unknown. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health, all in Boston, MA, and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA prospectively analyzed the association between incident UI and HT use in postmenopausal women aged 37 to 54 years between 2001 and 2003.