Rezaeimehr MR, Zargham M, Jahanabadi Z, et al. - Researchers conducted a cohort case study focussing on women with chronic lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) who simultaneously suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in order to evaluate how micturition abnormality is associated with OCD.

• A total of 128 women with chronic LUTS were grouped into two: participants with a history of OCD formed one group and the other group consisted of those with no psychiatric issues.

• Relative to the participants in the control group, those with OCD had a lower mean age (48.8 vs 41.7 years) and longer symptom duration.

• OCD patients had greater prevalence of voiding phase problems (mean voiding score: 9.3 vs 6.9).

• In OCD patients, the most common type of urinary incontinence was urge urinary incontinence (UUI), and the most important urodynamic study finding was bladder outlet obstruction (45% and 17% in the OCD and control groups, respectively).

• Bladder outlet obstruction was identified to be the strongest predictor of OCD and the best protector against OCD was stress urinary incontinence.