Epidemiology and demographics of prostatitis

This paper reviews the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) classification system for prostatitis and summarizes North American data on the incidence and prevalence of NIH category III chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, focusing upon a baseline demographic analysis of the US Chronic Prostatitis Cohort Study, a longitudinal study of 488 patients diagnosed with category III prostatitis. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.