Abstract
Objective: The objective of the study was to compare subjects with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) with controls on prior surgeries. Study Design: IC/PBS subjects were compared with matched controls on surgeries and possible surgical indications prior to their index dates. Results: Adjusted for demographic variables, logistic regression showed subjects exceeded controls in surgeries longer than 12 months and less than 1 month before the index date. However, addition of possible surgical indications showed chronic pelvic pain (CPP) to have a strong association with IC/PBS, whereas associations with surgeries were reduced to nonsignificance. Conclusion: Although women with IC/PBS were more likely to have experienced prior surgeries than controls, the apparent indications for surgeries, not the surgeries themselves, were stronger risk factors for IC/PBS. In particular, a prior history of CPP had a strong association with IC/PBS. Several features of study design, including extensive medical record review, suggest that prior CPP was not undiagnosed IC/PBS. Further investigation of CPP may yield insight into the pathogenesis of IC/PBS.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 286.e1-286.e6 |
Journal | American journal of obstetrics and gynecology |
Volume | 202 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2010 |
Keywords
- chronic pelvic pain
- fibromyalgia
- hysterectomy
- interstitial cystitis
- oophorectomy
- risk factor
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Obstetrics and Gynecology