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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 135, No. 5: 500-503
Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Cigarette Smoking, Obesity, and Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy: A Prospective Population-based Study

William R. Seitter and Elizabeth Barrett-Connor

From the Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Reprint requests to Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, 0607, University of California, San Diego, La Jdla, CA 920930607

The authors examined the relation of smoking and obesity to surgically treated benign prostatic hypertrophy in a prospective study of white men aged 40–79 years who were first examined in 1972–1974 and were followed for an average of 12 years. After exclusion of those whose surgery preceded assessment of smoking and obesity and those who had prostate cancer, there were 165 cases of benign prostatic hypertrophy among 929 men. Age-adjusted relative risk of benign prostatic hypertrophy in current or previous smokers compared with nonsmokers was 1.1 (95% confidence interval 0.8–1.6). Age-adjusted relative risk of benign prostatic hypertrophy in the most obese tertile (body mass index (kg/m2) >26.75) compared with the remainder showed a relative risk of 0.9 (95% confidence interval 0.6–1.4). Multivariate analysis also failed to show a relation between cigarette smoking or obesity and the development of surgically treated benign prostatic hypertrophy.

obesity; smoking; prostatic hypertrophy


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