Interstitial cystitis is a chronic, severely debilitating inflammatory condition characterized
by urinary frequency, urgency, nocturia, and pain on bladder filling (
1
). Sjögren’s syndrome is a multiorgan autoimmune exocrinopathy with general mucosal
dryness and systemic symptoms. Both syndromes are 10 times more common among women
than men. There is anecdotal evidence of an association between these syndromes (
2
,
3
). We therefore estimated the prevalence of interstitial cystitis–like symptoms among
patients with Sjögren’s syndrome compared with population-based controls.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
February 28,
2003
Received:
July 15,
2002
Footnotes
☆Dr. Leppilahti is the recipient of a grant from the Medical Research Fund of Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
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