“…With respect to symptom intensity, 14 articles provided data, 8,9,12,13,19,20,22,24,25,[27][28][29]32,33 half of which were conducted in the MAPP Network 9,13,24,25,28,29,33 and only 4 of which documented participants' symptoms prospectively. 22,25,28,29 These articles indicated that pelvic pain and urologic symptom intensity were elevated during flares (mean [ 5.2-8.8 [median [ 8.0] for pain 8,20,22,24,25,[27][28][29]33 and mean [ 3.5-5.6 for urologic symptoms out of 10 24,25,28,29 ) and greater than nonflare or baseline symptoms by a mean of 2.6 to 5.8 points (median [ 4.0) for pain 22,25,28,29,33 and a mean of 1.7 to 2.2 points for urologic symptoms (Supplementary Appendix Table 1, https://www.jurology. com).…”