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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 29.
Published in final edited form as: Int Urogynecol J. 2012 Apr 12;23(8):1087–1093. doi: 10.1007/s00192-012-1743-x

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics

All respondents
N = 3,316
Respondents with UI
N = 1,366
Respondents with no UI
N = 1,950
P – value

Age (years):
 40–49 772 (24%) 310 (23%) 462 (24%) 0.85
 50–59 893 (27%) 371 (27%) 522 (27%)
 60–69 753 (23%) 323 (24%) 430 (22%)
 70–79 544 (17%) 221 (16%) 323 (17%)
 80+ 311 (10%) 127 (9%) 184 (10%)

BMI (kg/m2):
 <25 1104 (33%) 352 (26%) 752 (39%) P < 0.001
 25–29.9 953 (29%) 374 (27%) 579 (30%)
 30–34.9 654 (20%) 308 (23%) 346 (18%)
 35+ 598 (18%) 329 (24%) 269 (14%)

Parity:
 0 360 (11%) 124 (9%) 236 (12%) 0.004
 1+ 2,842 (89%) 1,207 (91%) 1,635 (88%)

Marital status
 Married 2,117 (65%) 870 (64%) 1,247 (65%) 0.09
 Widowed 506 (16%) 221 (16%) 285 (15%)
 Separated or divorced 467 (14%) 202 (15%) 265 (14%)
 Never married 174 (5%) 58 (4%) 116 (6%)

Education
 11th grade or less 269 (8%) 104 (8%) 165 (9%) <0.001
 High school graduate 1,377 (43%) 514 (39%) 863 (45%)
 Some college 789 (25%) 377 (28%) 412 (22%)
 College graduate 452 (14%) 195 (15%) 257 (14%)
 Post-graduate work 330 (10%) 143 (11%) 187 (10%)

Numbers in columns do not add up to total number in each group due to missing values

P value was calculated using Chi-square test.