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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurourol Urodyn. 2024 Feb 26;43(4):840–848. doi: 10.1002/nau.25430

Table 2:

Distribution of LUTS Burden and Impact from the AUASI (N=929)

Continuous Distribution AUASI Categorical Distribution**
Mean SD Range No Symptoms N (%) Mild N (%) Moderate N (%) Severe/Very Severe N (%)
Symptoms
LUTS Severity – total score 6.1 5.2 0–33 59 (6%) 583 (63%) 265 (29%) 22 (2%)
 Storage subscale 3.7 2.8 0–13 74 (8%) 312 (34%) 469 (50%) 74 (8%)
 Emptying subscale 1.8 2.5 0–15 408 (44%) 269 (29%) 226 (24%) 26 (3%)
 Post-micturition subscale 0.6 1.0 0–5 561 (60%) 235 (25%) 76 (9%) 57 (6%)
Impact
LUTS Impact* 0.6 1.0 0–4 579 (62%) 195 (21%) 103 (11%) 52 (6%)
*

For LUTS Impact, responses for “mostly dissatisfied, unhappy, or terrible” were combined and labeled as severe.

**

For AUASI categories: No symptoms = score is 0, Mild = score 1–7, Moderate = score 8–19, and Severe/Very Severe = >19