Obesity, Not Metabolic Dysregulation, Predicts Incident BPH/LUTS in Chinese Men: Longitudinal Evidence from CHARLS

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Benign prostatic hyperplasia/lower urinary tract symptoms (BPH/LUTS) are prevalent in aging men and substantially impair quality of life. Although obesity and metabolic syndrome have been implicated as risk factors, whether excess adiposity independently drives BPH/LUTS beyond its metabolic consequences remains controversial. Crucially, prior studies have not isolated the ef...

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• Body Mass Index
• Carcinoma, Renal Cell
• Health Status
• Kidney Neoplasms
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Obesity
• Obesity, Metabolically Benign
• Risk Factors

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Literature Corpus work

9dda3199-759d-5ce1-a5d5-885475f2b480

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-10480681/v1