Shades of dry--curing urinary stress incontinence.

Urinary incontinence is a common condition affecting 20 to 40% of older women.1 The two most common types of urinary incontinence are stress incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine resulting from increased abdominal pressures (such as with a cough or Valsalva’s maneuver), and urge incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine after an unwanted contraction of the detrusor muscle.2 Some patients have mixed incontinence with both types of conditions. The frequency of both types of urinary incontinence increases with age, with peaks in preva-