Distribution of duration and frequency of symptom flares by broad flare duration category and sex among 72 participants with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham 2010-13.
| Minutes-long flares | Hours-long flares | One day-long flares | Multiple days-long flares | |||||
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| Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | |
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| Duration | (in minutes) | (in hours) | (in hours) | (in days) | ||||
| N | 13 | 14 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 39 | 17 |
| Maximum | 60.0 | 60.0 | 8.0 | 6.5 | 17.0 | 23.0 | 90.0 | 60.0 |
| 75th percentile | 37.5 | 35.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 22.5 | 10.0 |
| Median | 30.0 | 30.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 3.5 | 7.0 |
| Mean | 27.5 | 25.6 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 12.0 | 12.9 | 7.4 | 10.9 |
| 25th percentile | 15.0 | 10.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 2.5 | 4.5 |
| Minimum | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 10.0 | 9.0 | 2.0 | 2.51 |
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| Frequency | (per week) | (per week) | (per week) | (per month) | ||||
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| N | 12 | 13 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 16 |
| Maximum | 10.0 | 42.0 | 7.0 | 5.5 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 8.7 | 17.4 |
| 75th percentile | 2.3 | 7.0 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.5 |
| Median | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 |
| Mean | 2.1 | 7.1 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 1.8 |
| 25th percentile | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Minimum | 0.1 | 0.22 | 0.04 | 0.5 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.083 |
1
p-value for comparison of the full distribution between women and men = 0.020.
2
p-value for comparison of the full distribution between women and men = 0.098.
3
p-value for comparison of the full distribution between women and men = 0.027.