ArticleInternational neurourology journal2017
Seasonal Changes in Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Japanese Men With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Treated With α
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- Association between toileting and falls in older adults admitted to the emergency department and hospitalised: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Seasonal variations in overactive bladder drug prescription rates in women: a nationwide population-based study.World journal of urology · 2021Article
- Questionnaire survey assessing seasonal changes in lower urinary tract symptoms in men with benign prostate hyperplasia.Turkish journal of urology · 2020Article
- Seasonal Variation of Drug Prescription Rate for Overactive Bladder in Men Based on National Health Insurance Claims Data, 2012-2016.International neurourology journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate whether seasonal changes occurred in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
methodsPatients aged 50 years and older with BPH treated with α
resultsA total of 164 patients were enrolled. The total IPSS and QoL index did not show a significant difference between the 2 seasons. When the IPSS was divided into storage symptoms and voiding symptoms, storage symptoms in winter were substantially but nonsignificantly higher than those in summer (P=0.056). Of the 7 individual symptoms in the IPSS, a significant seasonal difference was observed only for nocturia, with a higher score in winter. Moreover, none of the uroflowmetric parameters showed a seasonal change. Voided volume had significant correlations with each symptom (urgency and nocturia) and overall subjective scores (storage, total IPSS, and QoL) exclusively in summer, while this correlation remained only for nocturia in winter.
conclusionsAs it has generally been assumed that LUTS deteriorate in winter, the present study corroborated that the severity of storage symptoms was higher in winter than in summer, even in patients treated with α
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