良性前列腺增生症是老年男性常见疾病。目前流行病学研究证明良性前列腺增生症发生率除随年龄增长而增加外,随经济发展增长,有城乡差别,提示其与代谢因素相关。有学者提出良性前列腺增生症亦应作为代谢综合征一个组分的“代谢综合征假说”。 Benign prostatic hyperplasia is a common disease in elderly men. Epidemiological studies currently show that in addition to increasing the incidence of benign prostatic hyperplasia with age, with the economic growth, urban-rural differences, suggesting that the metabolic factors. Some scholars have suggested that benign prostatic hyperplasia should also be a component of the metabolic syndrome “metabolic syndrome hypothesis ”.