PREVALENCE OF SOME IDENTIFIED PROSTATE PROBLEMS AMONG PEOPLE RESIDENT IN IMO STATE, NIGERIA.
Abstract
Adult males aged forty years and above resident in Imo State (both indigenes
and non indigenes) who visited the state owned health institutions in the state
and also the Federal Medical Centre Owerri constituted the population of the
study. A sample size of one thousand and ten (1010) patients’ case
records/reports were on request, made available, randomly from the
institutions’ records departments for a survey. A careful investigation of the
case records showed that as many as three hundred and twenty six (326) of the
patients (representing 32.3%) were diagnosed, managed or treated of prostate
related problems, identified as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), prostatitis
or cancer of the prostate. The prevalence of these prostate problems was also
seen to increase with age, as observed in people above seventy years of age
where over 48% of them was diagnosed of one form of prostate problem or the
other. Sadly, again, the results of the study showed that the prevalence of
prostate problems among adult males resident in Imo State increased as the
years passed by.
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