Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Ethnicity Are Independent Factors Associated with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

• Jasmine Lim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jasmine Lim, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Selvalingam Sothilingam

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jasmine Lim, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Selvalingam Sothilingam

  Affiliations Julius Center University of Malaya, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508GA, Utrecht, Netherlands

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• Selvalingam Sothilingam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jasmine Lim, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Selvalingam Sothilingam

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Rohan Malek,

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Selayang Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia

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• Murali Sundram,

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Guan Hee Tan,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Badrulhisham Bahadzor,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Teng Aik Ong,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Keng Lim Ng,

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Centre for Kidney Disease Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

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• Azad Hassan Abdul Razack

  * E-mail: azad@ummc.edu.my

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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