Racial differences in self-reported healthcare seeking and treatment for urinary incontinence in community-dwelling women from the EPI Study.

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Published in Neurourol Urodyn on June 29, 2011

Authors

Mitchell B Berger1, Divya A Patel, Janis M Miller, John O Delancey, Dee E Fenner

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. mitcberg@umich.edu

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