What Causes Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?

Aging

While the causes of benign prostatic hyperplasia aren't very well understood, the condition usually occurs in older men. As you age, your body naturally produces lower levels of testosterone. It's believed changing levels of testosterone and another male hormone called DHT plays a role in prostate growth that occurs with age.

The symptoms and occurrence of benign prostatic hyperplasia increase with age. Between the ages of thirty-one and forty, just one in twelve men has BPH. The condition affects about fifty percent of men between fifty-one and sixty. Around ninety percent of men older than eighty have benign prostatic hyperplasia.

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