The Association between Severity of Atherosclerosis and Lower Urinary Tract Function in Male Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

LUTS: Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-13

  Takahashi, Norio ^a   Shishido, Keiichi ^b   Sato, Yuichi ^a   Ogawa, Soichiro ^b   Oguro, Toshiki ^b   Kataoka, Masao ^b   Shiomi, Homare ^a   Uchida, Hisashi ^a   Haga, Nobuhiro ^b   Hosoi, Takayuki ^a   Nomiya, Masanori ^b   Aikawa, Ken ^b   Murakami, Husao ^a   Yamaguchi, Osamu ^b  

^a OHTA NISHINOUCHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Lower urinary tract dysfunction; Male lower urinary tract symptoms

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER EMPTYING; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTVOID RESIDUAL URINE VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; URINE FLOW RATE;

EID: 84855446839     PISSN: 17575664     EISSN: 17575672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-5672.2011.00098.x     Document Type: Article

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