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Nocturia: The circadian voiding disorder
Jin Wook Kim1, Young Tae Moon1, Kyung Do Kim1
1Department of Urology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract:
Nocturia is a prevalent condition of waking to void during the night. The concept of nocturia has evolved from being a symptomatic aspect of disease associated with the prostate or bladder to a form of lower urinary tract disorder. However, recent advances in circadian biology and sleep science suggest that it might be important to consider nocturia as a form of circadian dysfunction. In the current review, nocturia is reexamined with an introduction to sleep disorders and recent findings in circadian biology in an attempt to highlight the importance of rediscovering nocturia as a problem of chronobiology.
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