Prostatic hyperplasia is a common benign disease in elderly men, the main impact on patients, early embodied in the night to urinate more often, or during the day there are similar frequent bathroom urination phenomenon, urination with the performance of waiting before urination, such as all the preparations for urination are ready, but standing in front of the toilet must be brewing for a period of time to urinate out, this time is as short as 10 seconds, more than 1 to 2 minutes, and urination does not feel as smooth, and sometimes the urine line is not as thick as when young, dripping, weak urination. This time is as short as 10 seconds and as long as 1 to 2 minutes, and there is no feeling of pleasure in urinating, and the urine line is not as thick as when you are young, and sometimes the urine is not a line, dripping, weak, and the urine is not far away, and there is a risk of wetting your shoes if you are not careful, and you always feel that the urine is not clean. This condition often brings some trouble to the life of elderly men. If the disease does not receive timely attention or treatment and develops to a certain stage, it may happen that the urine cannot be completely drained, resulting in a certain amount of urine remaining in the bladder, or even a complete inability to drain urine. The residual urine in the bladder can cause certain effects to the patient, such as easy formation of bladder stones, recurrent urinary tract infections, or significant hematuria, or even cause the urine from the kidneys to not reach the bladder smoothly and be discharged out of the body, resulting in double hydronephrosis, uremia and life-threatening. So although prostate hyperplasia is a benign disease, it can be a big or small thing if not handled well. How does the prostate gland affect urination? We first look at where the prostate gland is located in the human body. The urine produced by a person needs to be stored in the bladder before finding a suitable time and occasion to be expelled from the body via the urethra. The prostate is a substantial organ located below the opening of the bladder and wraps around the beginning of the urethra. When you are young, the prostate is small and does not compress the urethra, so it does not have an effect on urination. Of course, there are some muscle components inside the prostate gland, and sometimes there are triggers such as cold and alcohol that cause muscle contraction, and even if there is no increase in the size of the prostate gland, it can still compress the urethra and lead to poor urination. So, how high is the incidence of prostate hyperplasia in older men? As we age, many organs in the body are shrinking, or shrinking in size, but only the prostate is an exception. In a normal male, the volume of the prostate gland increases gradually with age. Only the eunuchs in ancient times, because they did not have normal testicular function, had a small prostate gland and did not increase in size with age. Generally speaking, the volume of the prostate starts to increase after the age of 40 for men, and at the age of 60, more than half of the older men will have an increase in prostate volume, and at the age of 80, it will reach 83%. You can see that an enlarged prostate is indeed a progressive disease. However, most older men should not worry too much, as an increase in prostate volume does not necessarily produce symptoms of poor urination, but sometimes has to do with which part of the prostate gland is enlarged. In general, the symptoms of abnormal urination from prostate hyperplasia are positively correlated with the size of the prostate, the larger the prostate, the greater the likelihood of symptoms and possibly the greater the severity, and studies have shown that it seems that Asians are more likely to have symptoms associated with moderate to severe prostate hyperplasia than Americans.