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Epidemiology and risk factors of lower urinary tract symptoms/benign prostatic hyperplasia and erectile dysfunction.
The aging male : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male - 1 Mar 2019
Calogero Aldo E, Burgio Giovanni, Condorelli Rosita A, Cannarella Rossella, La Vignera Sandro
Abstract excerpt
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is very common in aging men and causes lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), which decrease health-related quality of life. A number of evidence suggests that other than ageing, modifiable factors, such as increasing prostate volume, obesity, diet, dyslipidemia, hormonal imbalance, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, alcohol, and smoking, also contribute to the development of BPH...
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