Post-partum urinary retention is a common phenomenon that may be related to the process of parturition. Covert retention is a self-limiting phenomenon and specific treatment is unnecessary.

There is a direct relationship between both cervical width and length and gestational age and an inverse relationship with cervical length and the duration of labor. Funnelling of the internal os was not a predictor of the early onset of labor. The dimensions and features of the Asian cervix differ from those of the Europeans, and this should be considered when conducting further studies of a similar nature.

Urinary dysfunction and its patterns appear to be as common and incapacitating in Hong Kong Chinese as they are in other populations.

In a study of 190 patients with genuine stress incontinence, 91 patients were of normal weight, 66 overweight and 33 obese as determined by their Body Mass Index at the time of operation which was either a colposuspension (143) or a silastic sling insertion (47). Body mass index was found to significantly alter the outcome.