Fluctuations in lower urinary tract symptoms in women

doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7247.1418

BMJ 2000;320:1418-1419 ( 27 May )

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Fluctuations in lower urinary tract symptoms in women

Reassurance and watchful waiting can prevent overtreatment

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Urinary symptoms are common in both men and women. Traditionally "prostatism" has been used to describe the symptoms in men,while urinary incontinence and dysuria were used for women.¹For some years the term lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) hasbeen used to describe any constellation of symptoms occurringin patients of either sex at any age. The symptoms are not diseasespecific and the term does not suggest any cause for the symptoms.It has been shown that instruments developed to score symptomsin men (for example, the international prostate symptom scorescale) are not sex specific, as the symptoms are as prevalentin women as in men. ² ³

Lower urinary tract symptoms may come and go
In this issue Møller et al (p 1429) presentdata on the incidence and rates of remission at one year of lowerurinary tract symptoms in 2284 Danish women aged 40-60.⁴ Theprevalence . . . [Full text of this article]

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