Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, Depression, Anxiety and Systemic Inflammatory Factors in Men: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationship between lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety in men remains unclear. Inflammation has recently been identified as an independent risk factor for LUTS and depression. This study aimed to assess the association between depression, anxiety and LUTS, and the moderating influence of systemic inflammation, in the presence of other biopsychosocial confounders.

Methods

Participants were randomly-selected from urban, community-dwelling males aged 35-80 years at recruitment (n = 1195; sample response rate:67.8%). Of these, 730 men who attended baseline (2002-5) and follow-up clinic visits (2007-10), with complete outcome measures, and without prostate or bladder cancer and/or surgery, neurodeg

SUBMITTER: Martin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4622039 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature