Glucose, Height Linked To Enlarged Prostate

[DollyDiaper]

I haven't seen this recent study referred to here, so I'm hoping it may be of interest:-

Glucose, Height Linked to Enlarged Prostate

Medically Reviewed On: February 27, 2007

(iVillage Total Health) - Men who are tall or who have high blood sugar may be more likely to experience prostate enlargement, researchers report.

Enlargement of the prostate gland, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), is common in men as they enter middle and old age. BPH is not cancerous but can interfere with urination, cause urinary tract infections and damage the kidneys.

Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center investigated how metabolic factors and body types may influence BPH. They studied 1,206 participants in the Air Force Health Study, with an average follow-up of more than 15 years.

They found that the median age for diagnosis of BPH was 58.6 years. Increasing age, height and fasting blood sugar levels were linked to increased risk of BPH. Greater systolic blood pressure, though associated with other health problems, appeared to lower the risk.

Several previous studies have found overweight or obesity to be a risk factor for BPH, but this one did not. Nor did metabolic syndrome, levels of blood fats or levels of thyroid hormones appear to play a role.

Previous research has linked hyperglycemia to BPH, but the association with height may be a new finding.

"It is entirely plausible that taller men have proportionally larger prostates. Thus, a positive relationship between height and BPH is not unexpected and is biologically plausible," the researchers wrote.

The study was reported in a recent issue of the journal Urology.

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Dolly

[BoTox]

I haven't seen this recent study referred to here, so I'm hoping it may be of interest:-

Glucose, Height Linked to Enlarged Prostate

Medically Reviewed On: February 27, 2007

(iVillage Total Health) - Men who are tall or who have high blood sugar may be more likely to experience prostate enlargement, researchers report.

Enlargement of the prostate gland, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), is common in men as they enter middle and old age. BPH is not cancerous but can interfere with urination, cause urinary tract infections and damage the kidneys.

Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center investigated how metabolic factors and body types may influence BPH. They studied 1,206 participants in the Air Force Health Study, with an average follow-up of more than 15 years.

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Dolly

Too bad they didn't list the height at which abnormal growth was documented.

As the owner of a prostate, I am over 40, have normal BP, am 5'9" and maybe a smidge, normal blood glucose and no symptoms. However, as with women and breast cancer, it is always in the back of my mind.

[Hunter1076]

Finally.... ......A reason to be happy I'm short.

I'm already incontinent but the thought of prostate cancer & testicular cancer Always loom in the back of my mind.

Now the chance of my prostate not growing because of my height is kinda like a binkie for my soul.

I just pray science is right this time.....

This is payback for all of you 6'4" people out there who make store shelves higher than they need to be for us normal 5'8" folks

[BriGuy]

You'd think an enlarged prostate would be a Good thing.

I don't understand why would you want an enlarged prostrate? I can see nothing good about that sort of thing. If you have an enlarged prostrate there are all sorts of bad things that you have to go through if it gets too big. Like the inability to urinate with a steady stream, having to have the thing "reamed" out or even surgery to take it out!

~Brian