Eighty-year old mary urinates small amounts of urine quite often, likely due to bladder shrinkage and loss of bladder tone. what age-related condition does she have?

Answer: A) incontinence

Incontinence is involuntary leakage of a small amount of urine common in older women. Frequency is when a large amount of urine is excreted in a day. In nocturia, one wakes at night one or a number of times to urinate. Hypospadias, on the other hand, is a congenital condition which happens in males only. A person whose kidney is inflamed is suffering from glomerulonephritis. Since Mary is a female, and urinate, but not in a large amount and, is not frequent, her kidney is not reported inflamed also, then she is not having a disease like B) frequency C) nocturia D) hypospadias and E) glomerulonephritis. She is suffering from A) incontinence instead.

The answer is frequency condition. Women with normally aging bladders have weaker sensation; also increase in bladder sensation has a underlying condition called detrusor overactivity. Its a common condition referred to as overactive bladder where detrusor muscle that controls the emptying of the bladder contracts involuntarily creating a strong, sometimes uncontrollable urge to empty the bladder.