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?

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.

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.