. 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 3.

[en] Mean and standard deviation (SD) of the maximum velocity of the anorectal angle (ARA) and the urethra in supine position during a cough before and after the synchronisation point^‡

	Dorsal-ventral direction		Caudal-cranial direction
	Before	After	Before	After
ARA
Continent (cm s⁻¹), mean ± SD	1.8 ± 0.95	−1.3 ± 0.75	−2.9 ± 1.5	3.3 ± 1.4
SUI (cm s⁻¹), mean ± SD	−1.5 ±	2.2 ± 0.98	−3.6 ± 1.0	4.1 ± 1.5
p value	p < 0.0001	p < 0.0001	p = 0.10^†	p = 0.085^†
Anterior urethra
Continent (cm s⁻¹), mean ± SD	−2.8 ± 1.4	2.8 ± 1.3	−3.4 ± 1.3	3.1 ± 1.0
SUI (cm s⁻¹), mean ± SD	−4.2 ± 1.3	4.5 ± 2.3	−5.1 ± 1.3	6.3 ± 2.6
p value	p = 0.011	p = 0.0072	p = 0.0015	p = 0.0031^*
Posterior urethra
Continent (cm s⁻¹), mean ± SD	−2.5 ± 1.4	2.5 ± 1.2	−3.7 ± 1.4	4.2 ± 1.7
SUI (cm s⁻¹), mean ± SD	−3.9 ± 1.1	4.0 ± 2.1	−5.4 ± 1.6	5.8 ± 2.4
p value	p = 0.0021	p = 0.034^*	p = 0.0044	p = 0.0041

SUI = stress urinary incontinence.

^‡

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

Welch’s correction applied for unequal variances.

^†

Not significant.