Prevalence of chronic prostatitis

The public opinion chronic prostatitis is a very common urological disease of great social importance. In the minds of many men chronic prostatitis is presented as inevitable. Contribute to this publication, indicating that chronic prostatitis affects 40 - 70% of men of reproductive age. Leading world expert on this issue, Nickel JC (1999) suggests that approximately 9% of male population have manifestations of prostatitis and two-thirds of them seek medical help. In general, the problem is not HP is less relevant to men and middle aged and older.
Patients with prostatitis constitute about 8% of all outpatient visits to urologists (Collins MM et al. 1998). This is the most frequent urologic disease profile in men and 50 years and third in frequency - in men older than 50 years (after BPH and prostate cancer). In an average year urologist takes 150-250 prostatitis patients, of whom about 50 were new patients. Patients with chronic prostatitis up to 1% of all visits to general practitioners. On the clinical, social and economic importance of the problem eloquent statistics NIH (1999) that in the United States the number of visits within one year of general practitioners and urologists about HP (1850593) exceeds such index for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (1709053) and cancer prostate (887,341).

In assessing the importance of the problem under discussion is necessary to emphasize a clear negative impact of CP on quality of life of patients, which is comparable to that for angina, Crohn's disease and diabetes mellitus (Wenninger K. et al. 1996).

According to the known epidemiological data, up to 90% of cases occurring in abakterialny prostatitis, in which the main complaint of patients is pain. In addition, often, the disease is preceded by nervous stress. However, so far not been established whether it is a cause or consequence prostatodinii. Chronic prostatitis is associated with psycho-vegetative disorders. It is often accompanied by anxiety, anxiety, depression, problems in the intimate sphere (de la Rosette JJ, 1993).
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