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Epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders between urban and rural female inhabitants

The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of pelvic organ prolapse in urban and rural women and to identify possible related factors. There were 1749 participants ; 1417(81%) urban women and 332 rural residents (19%). The urban and rural women were congruently regarding to age, parity, using oral contraceptives and postmenopausal status. The urban women were more often obese (p<0, 01), estrogen replacement users (p<0.001), smokers (p<0.001), with mild (p<0.001) and high (p<0.001) education, and they were often divorced (p<0.05) than rural women. Rural women were more often alcohol consumers (p<0.001), with low level of education....

pelvic organ prolapse; urban; rural

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