Despite these setbacks, the areaâs employment growth recorded a respectable 2.8 percent in 1998 and 1.9 percent so far in 1999. The average annual unemployment rate climbed to above 7 percent in 1998 for the first time since t he early 1990s, but fell to 5.3 percent for the twelve months ending in October 1999.
Even if visible blood in urine resolves spontaneously, a thorough evaluation by a urologist is advisable. Blood in urine can occur in women with bladder infection. Blood in urine can also be a symptom of other medical and urological problems such as bladder cancer, kidney or bladder stones and kidney cancer in women. Women who have history of smoking, even if they quit as long as 20 years before are at increased risk for bladder cancer; so are women over age 40.
Other causes could be a âkidney stone or urinary tract infection. In women, the vagina may be the source of blood believed to come from the urinary tract. Women can also have a kidney, bladder, or ureteral stone, which can cause blood in the urine. In either gender, bloody urine that originates in the lower urinary tract (the bladder in particular) and does not have signs of infection is often a symptom of bladder cancer. Blood in the urine that originates in the kidney, also without infection, is a common sign of kidney cancer.