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Nocturia and Overactive Bladder

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The relationship between overactive bladder (OAB) and nocturia is not well understood. Research has been hampered because of difficulties presented by the definitions of both conditions as well as the lack of methods for discerning the difference between voiding during sleep hours because of awakening for some other reason and voiding after being awakened by urgency, the cardinal symptom of OAB. Notwithstanding these difficulties, it seems clear that OAB is a major risk factor in both men and women for having nocturia, but the converse is not true – only about one-third of nocturics have OAB.

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  1. Department of Urology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

    Jerry G. Blaivas MD

  2. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Jerry G. Blaivas MD & Johnson F. Tsui BS

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  1. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Clarkson Avenue 450, Brooklyn, 11203, New York, USA

    Jeffrey P. Weiss, MD, FACS

  2. , Department of Urology, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, E. 77th Street 445, New York, 10021, USA

    Jerry G. Blaivas, MD

  3. , Department of Urology, Maastricht University Medical Center, P. Debeylaan 25, Maastricht, 6229 HX, Netherlands

    Philip E. V. Van Kerrebroeck, MD, PhD, MMSc

  4. Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Urology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman West, 3400 Spruce Street 3, PHILADELPHIA, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA

    Alan J. Wein, MD, FACS, PhD(hon)

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Blaivas, J.G., Tsui, J.F. (2012). Nocturia and Overactive Bladder. In: Weiss, MD, FACS, J., Blaivas, MD, J., Van Kerrebroeck, MD, PhD, MMSc, P., Wein, MD, FACS, PhD(hon), A. (eds) Nocturia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1156-7_6

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