Urinary Tract

MEDICAL CONDITION

SUGGESTED SOLUTION

DISEASE MANAGEMENT / SCREENING GUIDELINES IN THE UNITED STATES

STATISTICS / RISK REDUCTION

Urinary Tract:

Yearly urinalysis/culture (to check for infection, kidney stones or blood in the urine).

There are an estimated 150 million urinary tract infections per year world wide.

(Stamm WE et al. 2001 Urinary Tract Infections; disease panorama and challenges. J Infectious Disease; 183(Supplement 1):S1-S4)

In the United States 62 million adults ages 20 years and older have reported at least 1 episode of urinary tract infection. More than 50 million of these individuals were women.

(Obstet Gynecol 2008; 111:785-794)

Urinary tract infections account for more than 8 million office visits a year and 100,000 hospital admissions.