From the ArcaMax Publishing, Health & Fitness Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/healthtips/s-569813-821055
WATERTOWN, Mass. (UPI) -- People with mild to severe urinary tract
symptoms are more likely to suffer metabolic syndrome, U.S. and
British researchers said.
The researchers at the New England Research Institutes in Watertown,
Mass.; Northwestern University in Chicago; Cornell University, Weill
Medical College in New York, Pfizer Inc., in New York; and Pfizer Ltd.
in Sandwich, England; explored the association between urinary track
symptoms and metabolic syndrome using data from the Boston Area
Community Health Survey.
The study, published in the Journal of Urology, found the collection
of cardiovacular risk factors thought to be linked by insulin
resistance known as metabolic syndrome more likely in those who suffer
lower urinary tract system complaints. Among the complaints
researchers looked at were incomplete, weak, intermittent or strained
voiding or difficulties with frequency, urgency or voiding at night.
"These findings have important diagnostic and management
implications," the researchers said in a statement. "Patients who
present with components of metabolic dysfunction should be routinely
queried with respect to urological function, particularly voiding
symptoms such as intermittency, incomplete emptying and nocturia --
waking night to urinate."
The researchers interviewed 2,301 men ages 30-79 and conducted
analyses on 1,899 men who provided blood samples, body measurements,
blood pressure readings and self-reported medical histories.