Components of the metabolic syndrome—risk factors for the development of benign prostatic hyperplasia

It is concluded that NIDDM, treated hypertension, obesity, low HDL-cholesterol levels and high insulin levels constitute risk factors for the development of BPH and that BPH patients may share the same metabolic abnormalities of a defective insulin-mediated glucose uptake and secondary hyperinsulinemia as patients with the metabolic syndrome.