OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence and severity of urinary symptoms among men aged 55 and over in the British population. DESIGN Cross sectional population survey using a postal questionnaire. SETTING North West Thames health region. SUBJECTS 1480 men aged 55 years and over randomly selected from 8 general practices. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self reported frequency and severity of urinary...

The amplitude and time course of slow-wave activity (SWA) during NREM sleep were compared in 76 outpatients with depression and 55 healthy control subjects. Lower SWA amplitude was evident in the depressed group, especially among depressed men. For the most part, significant differences between patients and control subjects were restricted to the first NREM period and only in those 20-30 years ...

Introduction: Exercise training increases skeletal muscle capillary density, but the molecular mechanisms of this process are not yet clear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of acute longterm submaximal exercise on serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as the main angiogenic factor, and matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 ( MMP-2 and MMP-9), as the degrading fa...

The aim of the current study was to compare lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), erectile dysfunction (ED), and quality of life (QoL) in poststroke and healthy men. Thirty poststroke men with stroke-related LUTS, and as controls, 96 healthy men participated in this controlled, cross-sectional study. Participants filled in the Danish Prostate Symptom Score (DAN-PSS-1) Questionnaire, the Internat...

Plasma fibrinogen and plasminogen levels were measured in 122 male and 56 female healthy adult subjects and in 64 men with ischaemic heart disease. Plasma fibrinogen levels were found to rise markedly and progressively with age in both male and female healthy subjects; plasminogen showed only a slight rise with age. No sex differences were found for either fibrinogen or plasminogen. The correla...

OBJECTIVES The assessment of the prevalence of antibodies to human papillomaviruses (HPV) in the healthy population is essential for effective planning of HPV vaccine implementation into the preventive programmes for HPV-associated diseases and for the prospective monitoring of the impact of HPV vaccines in the Czech population. METHODS The seropositivity for HPV-6, 11, 16, 18, 31 and 33 viru...

pemphigus vulgaris (pv) is often complicated by osteoporosis. although corticosteroid therapy undoubtedly plays a causative role, inflammation associated with pv may also contribute to osteoporosis. this study was designed to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis in patients with pv before corticosteroid therapy and to compare these findings with those reported previously in healthy voluntee...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of two programs of standard sets and circuit weight training with different intensities on response of excess post exercise oxygen consumption (epoc) in young men. for this purpose, twelve healthy men (mean±sd: age, 21.92±1.1 years; height, 175.17±4.55cm; weight, 69.74±7.5kg) were voluntarily selected and participated in two stages of t...

AIM The evaluation of the activity of selected elements of the immune system in depression. METHOD Lymphocyte subsets evaluation (CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, CD16+, CD19+, CD4/CD8) was performed in 32 patients with depression (21 women and 11 men in the age from 21 to 66 years) using the flow cytometry method. The cytokine evaluation (sIL-2R, IL-4, IL-6) was performed in 39 patients with depression (23...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels are known to vary with race and ethnicity, environmental factors, lifestyle, metabolic and physiologic changes and advancing age. This study was designed to determine age specific serum PSA level in healthy Indian men and its comparison with that reported in different populations of the world. METHODS A total of 1300 adult m...