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Published on: August 14, 2019
Associations of dietary patterns and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in Korean adults
Jung-Sun Lim1, Wonkyung Hwang2, Jung Kwon Kim3
1Department of Family Medicine, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul 07061, Korea.
Background/Objectives:
Dietary factors act on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). This study examined the relationship between the overall diet quality and LUTS.
Subjects/Methods:
This study analyzed the data from examinees who visited a general hospital in Korea (October 13, 2014-March 12, 2020). The number of subjects in the study was 6,506 adult men. The recommended food score was used to evaluate the overall quality of the diet, and the International Prostate Symptom Score was used to quantify LUTS. Logistic regression analysis was used to derive the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) to evaluate the relationship between the dietary quality and LUTS. The influence of age, education, marital history, income, occupation, smoking, drinking, exercise, metabolic syndrome, body mass index (BMI), and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level was analyzed to determine the net influence of the overall diet quality on LUTS.
Results:
The group with high overall dietary quality showed a lower incidence of LUTS than the group with relatively lower dietary quality (OR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.79-0.99). These results were also observed after correcting for other risk factors and associated variables: age, education, smoking, metabolic syndrome, BMI, and PSA level.
Conclusion:
The overall diet quality and LUTS were correlated. Nevertheless, further research will be needed to find the relationship between diet quality and LUTS.
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