Obstructive prostatic symptoms: A community survey in jerusalem

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 797-804

  Abramson, Zvi Howard ^a   Gofin, Jaime ^b   Abramson, J H ^b  

^a Kupat Holim ^*  (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; SOCIAL CLASS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGE; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; URBAN POPULATION; URINARY RETENTION;

EID: 0028109242     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/23.4.797     Document Type: Article

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