Source: Medical News TODAY(UK)
Date: 2010-06-01
Author:  Source American Urological Association

Healthy lifestyle choices - such as exercising regularly and not
smoking- can significantly impact sexual and urinary function,
according to new data was presented at the 105th Annual Meeting
of the American Urological Association (AUA). Two new studies
linking the ill effects of smoking and sedentary lifestyle was
presented to reporters during a special press conference on
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. PDT.

Using the FINNO Study cohort, an international team of
researchers surveyed a population-based sample of more than 2,000
Finnish women, aged 18 to 79, about their smoking habits and
urinary function. After controlling for sociodemographics,
lifestyle, reproductive factors, comorbidities and medication
use, the investigators found that active smokers and former
smokers had increased urinary urgency (odds ratios 2.7 and 1.8,
respectively) and frequency (odds ratios 3.0 and 1.7,
respectively) compared to those who did not ever smoke. Of the
women surveyed, 52.7 percent never smoked, 24.1 percent were
former smokers and 23.2 percent currently smoke.

In a separate study on the relationship between exercise and
sexual function, researchers from North Carolina studied 178
healthy men at the Durham VA Medical Center