PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Varilla, Vincent
AU  - Samala, Renato V.
AU  - Galindo, Diana
AU  - Ciocon, Jerry
TI  - Nocturia in the elderly: A wake-up call
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.78a.11025
DP  - 2011 Nov 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 757--764
VI  - 78
IP  - 11
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/78/11/757.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/78/11/757.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2011 Nov 01; 78
AB  - Nocturia is a condition that health providers must seek out and address in older adults. Since it adversely affects quality of life and carries a risk of morbidity and of death (often because of falling), this symptom must be elicited during the physician-patient encounter. Understanding its underlying causes, risk factors, and consequences is essential in formulating the most suitable management strategy. Drug and nondrug treatments target the individual disorders that contribute to nocturia.