Are lower urinary tract symptoms associated with cardiovascular disease in the Dutch general population? Results from the Krimpen study.

Purpose: To describe the association between lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), with adjustment for age and other confounders. We were specifically interested in the possible predictive value of LUTS to the incidence of CVD in the future in the general population.

Methods: We performed post hoc analyses using data from the Krimpen study, a large community-based study in the Netherlands.

Erectile dysfunction in the community: trends over time in incidence, prevalence, GP consultation and medication use--the Krimpen study: trends in ED.

Introduction: In the general population, erectile dysfunction (ED) is surrounded by a "taboo." Epidemiologists studying this problem have to be aware of the phenomenon of the "tip-of-the-iceberg."

Aims: Our aim is to describe the iceberg phenomenon for ED and their help-seeking behavior in the general population during a period when public interest in ED heightened and waned after the introduction of the drug sildenafil.

Risk factors for lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia in a community based population of healthy aging men: the Krimpen Study.

Purpose: We explored risk factors for lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia in the open population.

Materials And Methods: A longitudinal, population based study with a followup of 6.5 years was done in 1,688 men who were 50 to 78 years old.

Risk factors for deterioration of erectile function: the Krimpen study.

This report from the Krimpen study explored the relationship between the determinants for worsening of erectile function in the open population. In Krimpen aan den IJssel (a municipality near Rotterdam), all men aged 50-75 years, without cancer of the prostate or the bladder and without a history of radical prostatectomy or neurogenic bladder disease, were invited to participate in June 1995. The response rate was 50%.

Loss to follow-up in a longitudinal study on urogenital tract symptoms in Dutch older men.

Objective: To describe loss to follow-up (LTFU) in a longitudinal community-based study on urogenital tract dysfunction in older men.

Patients And Methods: A cohort study of men recruited from a Dutch municipality was performed. A baseline study and two follow-up rounds--all with questionnaires and additional measurements--were performed with, on average, 2.