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The present study was a pilot study. We fully agree that additional studies should include a larger number of subjects and that clinicians should be unaware of the patients' status to eliminate this potential confounding variable. Moreover, the future studies should assess this modulation of pelvic floor contraction in healthy volunteers, parous women without SUI, and parous women with SUI. Editorial commentUrologyVol. 70Issue 3PreviewI have read this article with interest. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between BP and PFM activity during coughing in women with SUI. Shafik,1,2 Amarenco et al.,3 and others have previously described this relationship in women with urgency/frequency syndrome but without urgency urinary incontinence or SUI. In that sense, this topic is not new, as Shafik4 has also reported. In this study, the new important aspect is that the authors compared women with and without SUI to determine the type of relationship mentioned above and to assess the influence of bladder volume on, and the pattern of, this relationship. Full-Text PDF Pelvic Floor Muscle Activity During Coughing: Altered Pattern in Women with Stress Urinary IncontinenceUrologyVol. 70Issue 3PreviewTo assess the relationship between bladder pressure (BP) and pelvic floor muscle activity during coughing in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Full-Text PDF