Speed Skating Gold Medalist Bonnie Blair Speaks Out About a Condition That Affects Millions of Adult Women in the U.S.

Speed Skating Gold Medalist Bonnie Blair Speaks Out About a
Condition That Affects Millions of Adult Women in the U.S.
Stress Urinary Incontinence is Common, But Most Women Remain Silent 


NEW YORK, June 9  /PRNewswire/ -- As part of Stress Urinary Incontinence
Awareness Week, speed skating champion Bonnie Blair is speaking out about a
common medical condition most women are too embarrassed to discuss.

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) affects nearly 15 million adult women in the
United States.  SUI is the accidental leakage of urine due to physical
activities like sneezing, coughing, laughing, lifting or exercising.  The
condition can happen at any age.  Risk factors include childbirth, chronic
coughing, obesity and constipation.  Most women don't discuss SUI because
they're embarrassed, fear surgery or believe it's a normal part of aging.

After years of keeping it private, Bonnie Blair started talking openly about
SUI with her healthcare professional when she realized how much the condition
affected her daily life activities that she once enjoyed.

Through communication and education, three of the leading advocacy groups for
continence -- American Foundation for Urologic Disease, National Association
For Continence and Simon Foundation for Continence -- want women to know that
SUI is a legitimate medical condition and not a natural part of aging.  For
more information, visit http://www.sui.com/.

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  SOUNDBITES:

   * Bonnie Blair, Gold Medalist in Speed Skating

   * Roger Dmochowski, MD, Professor of Urology, Vanderbilt University



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