In a study published in the International Journal of Urology, serum cholesterol and its risk of lower urinary tract symptom progressions was investigated.
The study involved 2323 men to test the association between cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein ratio and incident lower urinary tract symptoms.
A total of 253 developed incident lower urinary tract symptoms.
On crude analysis, higher high-density lipoprotein was associated with a decreased lower urinary tract symptoms risk, whereas total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein showed no association.
“After multivariable adjustment, the association between high-density lipoprotein and incident lower urinary tract symptoms remained significant, whereas no association was observed for low-density lipoprotein,” noted the study.
