Differential impact of lower urinary tract symptoms on generic and disease-specific quality of life in men and women

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-65

  Araki, Isao ^a   Tsuchida, Takayuki ^a   Nomura, Teruhisa ^a   Fukasawa, Mizuya ^a   Takihana, Yoshio ^a   Koyama, Nobuyuki ^b   Takeda, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lower urinary tract symptoms; Quality of life; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PRESERVATION; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; URINARY TRACT; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 47949091241     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000137642     Document Type: Article

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