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ArticleThe world journal of men's health2017

The Correlation between Body Mass Index and Routine Parameters in Men Over Fifty.

Deok Ha Seo, Sol Yoon, Jae Hwi Choi, Jungmo Do, Sin Woo Lee, Chunwoo Lee, Seong Uk Jeh, See Min Choi, Sung Chul Kam, Jeong Seok Hwa and 7 more

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Article in The world journal of men's health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Deok Ha SeoDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3883-409X
Sol YoonDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3627-3858
Jae Hwi ChoiDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9305-2015
Jungmo DoDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1601-5210
Sin Woo LeeDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-6366
Chunwoo LeeDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5846-7039
Seong Uk JehDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0206-0555
See Min ChoiDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-2640
Sung Chul KamDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5403-3623
Jeong Seok HwaDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3821-5237
Ky Hyun ChungDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2854-8708
Sung Won KwonDepartment of Urology, CHA Gangnam Medical Center, CHA University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4178-4521
Sae Chul KimDepartment of Urology, Seonam University Myongji Hospital, Goyang, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2040-4251
Dong Soo ParkDepartment of Urology, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9642-6481
Jae Mann SongDepartment of Urology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5835-0527
Kyung Seop LeeDepartment of Urology, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0554-4272
Jae Seog HyunDepartment of Urology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8820-4117
Gyeongsang National University Hospital · KRChangwon National University · KRKorea University · KRGyeongsang National University · KRYonsei University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis study aimed to investigate the relationships between body mass index (BMI) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, international prostate symptom score (IPSS), quality of life (QoL), and prostate volume (PV). MATERIALS AND

methodsHeight, weight, PSA levels, PV, and IPSS were analyzed in 15,435 patients who underwent a prostate examination between 2001 and 2014. Patients aged <50 years or with a PSA level ≥10 ng/mL were excluded. The relationships between BMI and PSA, IPSS, QoL, and PV were analyzed by a scatter plot, one-way analysis of variance, and the Pearson correlation coefficient.

resultsThe mean age was 71.95±7.63 years, the mean BMI was 23.59±3.08 kg/m², the mean PSA level was 1.45±1.45 ng/mL, the mean IPSS was 15.53±8.31, the mean QoL score was 3.48±1.25, and the mean PV was 29.72±14.02 mL. PSA, IPSS, and QoL showed a tendency to decrease with increasing BMI, and there were statistically significant differences for each parameter (p≤0.001). PV showed a significant tendency to increase with BMI (p<0.001). In the correlation analysis, BMI showed a statistically significant correlation (p<0.001) with PSA, IPSS, and QoL, although the correlations were very weak. In contrast, BMI showed a significant correlation with PV (p<0.001), with a meaningful Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.124.

conclusionsHigher BMI was associated with lower PSA levels and higher IPSS and QoL scores. Meanwhile, PV increased with BMI. Although obese individuals had a greater PV, obesity did not aggravate lower urinary tract symptoms.

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Body mass indexLower urinary tract symptomsProstate-specific antigenProstatic hyperplasia

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PMCPMC5746489
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