Correlations Of Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome With Female Sexual Activity

Many researchers have reported that chronic pain leads to sexual dysfunction. The greater the severity of pain, the greater is the degree of sexual dysfunction. Yoon and Yoon from Seoul, Korea conducted a questionnaire-based, cross sectional study to examine in detail whether pain and voiding symptoms are correlated with the sex lives of patients with IC/BPS…

Prevalence Of Painful Bladder Syndrome (PBS) Symptoms In Adult Women In The General Population In Japan

UroToday.com – In the only survey of BPS/IC conducted in Japan, done in urology clinics, the prevalence was estimated at 4.5/100,000 women.[Ito et al. 2000] Studies in Finland, Austria, and Taiwan using O’Leary-Sant questionnaires to identify persons with symptoms of BPS/IC have arrived at figures around 300/100,000 women.[Yu 2006;Leppilahti