Steroid hormones and hormone-related genetic and lifestyle characteristics as risk factors for benign prostatic hyperplasia: review of epidemiologic literature

Urology. 2004 Aug;64(2):201-11. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.04.025.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • 3-Oxo-5-alpha-Steroid 4-Dehydrogenase / genetics
  • Aged
  • Alcohol Drinking / epidemiology
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Cohort Studies
  • Comorbidity
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Diet
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • Gonadal Steroid Hormones / blood*
  • Humans
  • Life Style*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Motor Activity
  • Obesity / epidemiology
  • Prostatic Hyperplasia / blood
  • Prostatic Hyperplasia / epidemiology*
  • Prostatic Hyperplasia / etiology
  • Prostatic Hyperplasia / genetics
  • Receptors, Androgen / genetics*
  • Receptors, Calcitriol / genetics
  • Risk Factors
  • Smoking / epidemiology
  • Steroid 17-alpha-Hydroxylase / genetics
  • Trinucleotide Repeats
  • United States / epidemiology

Substances

  • Gonadal Steroid Hormones
  • Receptors, Androgen
  • Receptors, Calcitriol
  • Steroid 17-alpha-Hydroxylase
  • 3-Oxo-5-alpha-Steroid 4-Dehydrogenase