A study published in BMCPublicHealth suggests that calf circumference less than 28.5 cm in males and 26.5 cm in females is a risk factor for incontinence in the Chinese elderly population.
]. This contradiction may be caused by the different study populations. The elderly population, who often suffer multiple diseases, is different from the adult population, so the study of a single disease could not be conducted in isolation. Sarcopenia has been demonstrated to be prevalent in older females with UI and may be a clinical predictor of incontinence, influencing the treatment and management of the disease [].
Exercise combined with nutritional intervention can prevent and treat the sarcopenia, so as to reduce the incidence of incontinence caused by sarcopenia [The limitation of this study is that the data come from the national general survey of the health status of the elderly population, and not a specially designed study for incontinence and sarcopenia. The incontinence-related data are incomplete and data from the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire is lacking.
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