A new research study in PLOS ONE finds
that while sitting down offers men without such prostate issues no
measurable benefit, men who suffer from LUTS are able to urinate faster,
with greater force, and leave less urine behind in their bladders.
These are all challenges men with the condition face, in addition to the rarer complications of urinary pain and excessive urination at night.
“Ever since men had the choice to urinate either standing or sitting, the optimal voiding position has been a topic of discussion,” write the researchers, of the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Were our bodies designed to stay upright, or were we meant to submit to gravity and squat?
Despite the comparable technology advances in the West, Eastern cultures have stayed loyal to the act of squatting. The modern toilet simply isn’t for everyone.
But whether it’s necessarily better isn’t all that understood. “Only a handful of studies have investigated the effects of voiding posture on urodynamic parameters by comparing the standing versus the sitting position,” the authors write (making terrific use of the phrase “urodynamic parameters”). So they conducted a meta-analysis, which is just about the least fun way to conduct a pee study.
From the 14 medical databases they looked at, from a total of 2,352 publications, 96 studies eventually got whittled down to the most viable 11.
The findings were consistent across each study, despite slight differences in methodology and overall goal.
“We found that in patients with LUTS the sitting position is associated with a trend towards a more favorable urodynamic profile,” they wrote. CONTINUE READING
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These are all challenges men with the condition face, in addition to the rarer complications of urinary pain and excessive urination at night.
“Ever since men had the choice to urinate either standing or sitting, the optimal voiding position has been a topic of discussion,” write the researchers, of the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Were our bodies designed to stay upright, or were we meant to submit to gravity and squat?
Despite the comparable technology advances in the West, Eastern cultures have stayed loyal to the act of squatting. The modern toilet simply isn’t for everyone.
But whether it’s necessarily better isn’t all that understood. “Only a handful of studies have investigated the effects of voiding posture on urodynamic parameters by comparing the standing versus the sitting position,” the authors write (making terrific use of the phrase “urodynamic parameters”). So they conducted a meta-analysis, which is just about the least fun way to conduct a pee study.
From the 14 medical databases they looked at, from a total of 2,352 publications, 96 studies eventually got whittled down to the most viable 11.
The findings were consistent across each study, despite slight differences in methodology and overall goal.
“We found that in patients with LUTS the sitting position is associated with a trend towards a more favorable urodynamic profile,” they wrote. CONTINUE READING
MEDICALDAILY
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