Overactive Bladder or Anxiety: Which Came First?

Objective: Although available diagnostic criteria are intelligible, combination of OAB and anxiety in the same patient presents a perfect example of medical causality dilemma, commonly stated as the question: "which came first: the chicken or the egg?". The aim of this review article is to address available insights in bidirectional association between OAB and anxiety.

Methods: In this review article, we included different types of studies whose results are presented as relative risk (RR) or odds ratio (OR) with a 95% accuracy.

Perinatal outcome in primiparous women aged 35 and older: a case-control study.

Unlabelled: Women who delay childbearing are at increased risk for complications in pregnancy and delivery.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine whether primiparas > or = 35 have worse perinatal outcome compared to primiparas aged 20-27.

Patients And Methods: The perinatal outcome of 240 primiparas who gave singleton birth at Mostar Clinical Hospital between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2004 was analyzed.