The older is the man, the greater is the likelihood that he will become a patient of urologist. This is the subject of the interview with NEWS.am Medicine of the Chief of Urology Service in Medical Center "Yerevan" Vahagn Ashughian.

According to him, even a kind of formula is derived depending on the age of urological diseases in men: in 50 years, 50% of men have problems with urination, in 60 years - 60%, 70% -70 years etc. At the same time the most common symptoms in elderly patients of urologist are lower urinary tract symptoms and dysuric events on the basis of benign hyperplasia of the prostate and inflammatory diseases of the prostate and cancer.

«There is a theory that if men lived long enough, and would not have died from other causes - cardiovascular or neurological diseases - all of them, in the end, would have the problems associated with urogenital system, because the male body is constituted so. Hormonal changes associated with age, lead to the changes in the prostate, bladder, which are responsible for these disorders,”- he said, noting that “many men simply do not have time to visit the urologist».

Talkingaboutthepracticeofthe obligatorymedicalchecksformenabove60, that many countries practice, and which would be beneficiary in Armenia as well, the urologist noted, that, nevertheless the use of screening for certain diseases is not proved. «On the most significant model of the prostate cancer it has been proven, that even if we detectitate arliers tage san date arlier age, the rate of mortality from this disease, however, is not reduced, "- he said, adding that in the case of urolithiasis, for example, it works: “The sooner we reveal the smaller stones, the easier it is to treat the patient. "