Healthcare practices among blacks and whites with urinary tract symptoms.

Context: The reasons for African-American men to seek care for lower urinary care symptoms has not been determined due to sparse population-based data.

Objective: Our study examines the solicitation and receipt of medical care for urinary symptoms among racially oversampled elderly urban and rural cohort of African Americans and whites.

Design: Longitudinal analyses were conducted on five North Carolina counties through the Piedmont Health Survey of the Elderly Established Populations for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly.