Nocturia: morbidity and management in adults

• Nocturia is an increasingly prevalent and bothersome urinary symptom associated with considerable impact and morbidity in later life. Nocturnal frequency is associated with a number of underlying pathologies, both related and unrelated to the lower urinary tract. Following careful assessment, diagnosis and management, the condition is amenable to amelioration, if not complete cure in the majority of cases. This paper outlines the epidemiology, underlying pathophysiology and diseases associated with nocturia and reviews current treatment strategies.

Ämnesord

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Läkemedelskemi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Basic Medicine -- Medicinal Chemistry (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Farmakologi och toxikologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Basic Medicine -- Pharmacology and Toxicology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists/therapeutic use

Adult

Aged

Aged

80 and over

Deamino Arginine Vasopressin/therapeutic use

Diuretics/therapeutic use

Female

Humans

Male

Middle Aged

*Quality of Life

Urinary Bladder Neck Obstruction/drug therapy

Urination Disorders/*etiology/physiopathology

overactive bladder syndrome

treatment

Nocturia

pathology

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