Urology
Volume 61, Issue 6 , Pages 1086-1091 , June 2003

Comparison of lower urinary tract symptom severity and associated bother between community-dwelling black and white men: the Olmsted County Study of Urinary Symptoms and Health Status and the Flint Men’s Health Study

  • Aruna V. Sarma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • John T. Wei

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: John T. Wei, M.D., M.S., Department of Urology, University of Michigan Health System, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0759, USA
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  • Debra J. Jacobson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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  • Rodney L. Dunn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    • ,
  • Rosebud O. Roberts

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
    • ,
  • Cynthia J. Girman

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
    • ,
  • Michael M. Lieber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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  • Kathleen A. Cooney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • David Schottenfeld

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • James E. Montie

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • Steven J. Jacobsen

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Received 14 January 2003 ,Accepted 13 February 2003.

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☆ This study was funded, in part, by research grants from Merck Research Laboratories as part of the BPH Natural History Study Group and the Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health grants AR30582, DK58859, and P50CA69568.

PII: S0090-4295(03)00154-7

doi: 10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00154-7

Urology
Volume 61, Issue 6 , Pages 1086-1091 , June 2003

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