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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Urol. 2009 Jun 21;57(6):1101–1110. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.06.011

Table 2.

[en] Mean and standard deviation (SD) of the maximum displacements and angle of the anorectal angle (ARA) and urethral displacement direction during a cough in supine position

Dorsal-ventral Cranial-caudal Resultant Angle, °
ARA
Continent (cm), mean ± SD 0.18 ± 0.36 −0.63 ± 0.37 0.77 ± 0.36 285 ± 40
SUI (cm), mean ± SD −0.20 ± 0.26 −1.01 ± 0.42 1.1 ± 0.40 260 ± 20
p value p = 0.0038 p = 0.0084 p = 0.022 p = 0.012*
Anterior urethra
Continent (cm), mean ± SD −0.43 ± 0.28 −0.66 ± 0.25 0.84 ± 0.30 240 ± 15
SUI (cm), mean ± SD −1.22 ± 0.48 −1.7 ± 0.51 2.1 ± 0.65 235 ± 10
p value p < 0.0001 p = 0.0002* p = 0.0002* p = 0.16*
Posterior urethra
Continent (cm), mean ± SD −0.41 ± 0.21 −0.80 ± 0.27 0.92 ± 0.28 240 ± 10
SUI (cm), mean ± SD −1.1 ± 0.42 −1.7 ± 0.61 2.0 ±0.71 240 ± 5
p value p = 0.0009* p = 0.0014* p = 0.0009* p = 0.15

SUI = stress urinary incontinence.

Continent cohort: n = 23; SUI cohort: n = 9.

*

Welch’s correction applied for unequal variances.

Not significant.