Alterações morfológicas das fibras tipos I e II do músculo estriado uretral de ratas prenhes diabéticas

Abstract

Urinary incontinence (UI) in women is defined as any involuntary urine loss. It is a frequent condition of high economic cost to the government that also results in women’s physical, psychological and social damage and impaired quality of life. Various risk factors are involved in UI development; however, association with Diabetes mellitus (DM) is of great interest at present. DM affects multiple organ systems, including the urinary system in approximately 52% of diabetic patients and in those showing only hyperglycemia; however, the association between gestational DM and UI has not been fully explained. Health care professionals must be attentive to this new parameter and attempt to analyze it in more detail so that prophylactic and therapeutic measures can be established. It is necessary to delineate the chronology of the relationship between gestational Diabetes mellitus and vesical complications, the relationship between controlled diabetes and the incidence of incontinence as well as effective treatment modalities for diabetic patients with symptoms in the lower urinary tract.