The meaning of urinary hesitancy in women with overactive bladder Re: Park KK, Lee SH, Kim YJ, Choi YD, Mah SY: 'Association between urinary hesitancy symptoms and uroflowmetry measured urinary hesitancy time in men with lower urinary tract symptoms. Neurourol Urodyn. 2011 May 01: 30:578-82'

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Dear Editor, After reading Park et al.'s research about urinary hesitancy in men, we wondered about urinary hesitancy in women. Some authors report some difference on uroflowmetric parameters between patients with interstitial cystitis and patients with overactive bladder. Therefore, we evaluated the relationship of uroflow parameters measured by uroflowme-try with urinary urgency symptoms in women with overactive bladder (OAB). Between April 2011 and September 2012, 110 patients with uncomplicated lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) were recruited from the outpatient clinics of one center. We subjectively evaluated patients' symptoms of urgency using an urgency sensation scale (USS)3 and hesitancy using a simple question, "When you were in room and ready to urinate, did you pass urine immediately or did you need to wait?" Subjects who answered, "wait," were considered to have urinary hesitancy, while subjects who answered that they were able to immediately void were considered to have "no hesitancy." Notably, to exclude psychological voiding inhibition, we asked all patients, "Is this urination the same as your usual urination?" If patients reported any unusual urination delay in the uroflow room, they were excluded from the study.