Bother index can be used in deciding how the symptom nocturia itself is important
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Materials and methods: To estimate the extent to which patients were bothered relative to nocturia in various age groups (by decade), a descriptive fi gure, the “bother index,” was used. Th e bother index was calculated by dividing the number of individuals reporting a bother score higher than a symptom score by the number of individuals reporting a bother score lower than a symptom score in the same age and sex group.
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