Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in the Danish Population: A Population-Based Study of Symptom Prevalence, Health-Care Seeking Behavior and Prevalence of Treatment in Elderly Males and Females

Lower urinary tract symptoms are common in elderly Danish males and females. Overall the same pattern for health-care seeking behavior with regard to LUTS is seen in males and females and the overall treatment prevalence is similar. For both genders it is worth noting that a substantial proportion of subjects with a high symptom burden had not visited their physician within two years and further that subjects who have been treated for LUTS have a higher symptom levels than their untreated peers.