Overactive bladder is another term for which incontinence type?

Overactive bladder is another term for which incontinence type?

• A. Stress
• B. Functional
• C. Overflow
• D. Urge

Answer: (D)

Overactive bladder is driven by detrusor overactivity, which causes a sudden, strong urge to urinate. When that urgent sensation is followed by leakage, it’s called urge incontinence. So the term describes urgency-based symptoms, and leakage that accompanies that urgency defines the specific incontinence type. Stress incontinence involves leakage with effort or coughing, functional incontinence is due to external barriers to toilet access, and overflow results from bladder overfilling often with weak detrusor—none of these center on the sudden urge to void that characterizes OAB.

Overactive bladder is driven by detrusor overactivity, which causes a sudden, strong urge to urinate. When that urgent sensation is followed by leakage, it’s called urge incontinence. So the term describes urgency-based symptoms, and leakage that accompanies that urgency defines the specific incontinence type.

Stress incontinence involves leakage with effort or coughing, functional incontinence is due to external barriers to toilet access, and overflow results from bladder overfilling often with weak detrusor—none of these center on the sudden urge to void that characterizes OAB.