RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Nocturia in the elderly: A wake-up call
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 757
OP 764
DO 10.3949/ccjm.78a.11025
VO 78
IS 11
A1 Varilla, Vincent
A1 Samala, Renato V.
A1 Galindo, Diana
A1 Ciocon, Jerry
YR 2011
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/78/11/757.abstract
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.