Female chronic cough patients with and without urinary stress incontinence
| Baseline characteristics | ||||
| Characteristic | Total cohort | Patients with stress incontinence | Patients without stress incontinence | p-value |
| Subjects n | 210 | 133 | 77 | |
| Age | 61 (49–70) | 61 (51–71) | 61 (40–69) | 0.112 |
| Duration of chronic cough months | 18 (8–60) | 18 (8–60) | 16 (8–60) | 0.959 |
| Body mass index | 28 (24–32) | 28 (25–34) | 26 (23–31) | 0.002¶ |
| Multivariable analysis: significant predictors of urinary stress incontinence# | ||||
| Characteristic | AUC (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | p-value | |
| Age | 0.57 (0.48–0.65) | 1.02 (1.00–1.04) | 0.028¶ | |
| Body mass index | 0.63 (0.55–0.71) | 1.08 (1.03–1.14) | 0.002¶ | |
Data are presented as median (interquartile ranges) and compared using Mann–Whitney U test for non-normally distributed data, unless otherwise stated. #: variables entered into the model were age, body mass index and duration of chronic cough (months); ¶: denotes statistical significance at p<0.05.