TABLE 1.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for study participants
Inclusion Criteria |
All: |
• Women ages 18–60 able to speak and understand English |
Urgency and Frequency Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (UF-LUTS): |
• Bothersome urgency or frequency in the past 4 weeks |
Controls: |
• No UF-LUTS in the past 6 months |
• Age, BMI, & vaginal parity matched to cases |
Exclusion Criteria |
• Stress urinary incontinence or mixed incontinence more than once per month |
• Current or recurrent urinary tract infectiona or gynecologic infection or cancer |
• Symptomatic pelvic organ prolapsea |
• Previous surgery for pelvic organ prolapse or incontinence |
• Hip, pelvic, or trunk trauma or cancer |
• Abdominal or pelvic surgery in the past year |
• Current injury that would limit their ability to participate in testing |
• Onabotulinum toxin injections to the bladder, pelvic floor or hip muscles |
• Vulvovaginal dermatological conditions associated with UF-LUTS |
• Diabetes |
• Current pregnancya or birth/termination/miscarriage in the past 12 weeks |
• Neurological involvement that would influence their coordination or balance |
• Implanted devices that impair the ability to visualize / make ultrasound measures |
Items ruled out during final eligibility exam