Up to 8% of Australian men report having urogenital pain at any given time, with 15% of men suffering from symptoms of prostatitis at some point during their lives.
In addition to causing impaired quality of life, men who have a history of prostatitis have increased rates of benign prostatic hyperplasia, lower urinary tract symptoms and prostate cancer.
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Dickson G. Are you the author?
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas, United States of America.
Reference: Aust Fam Physician. 2013 Apr;42(4):216-9.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23550248
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