new YORK (Reuters Health) – in contrast to results

recent, new research found no evidence that the

use of aspirin or ibuprofen decreases the risk that the

prostate agreat.

Thus, the results published in British Journal of medicine

International contradict a previous study results

which had revealed that the benign prostatic hyperplasia

(enlarged prostate) was not as common in men taking

anti-inflammatory nonsteroidal (NSAID) on a regular basis.

Los NSAIDs include analgesics such as aspirin, the

ibuprofen and naproxen.

The cause of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) would be the

inflammation. This makes presume that NSAIDs could control the

enlarged prostate, explained the lead author of the

new study, Siobhan Sutcliffe.

The national institutes of Health estimate that States

United carried some 4.5 million medical consultations

annual associated with the symptoms of BPH.

In 2006, a follow-up to almost 2,500 men for 12

years had shown that a daily NSAID users were

less likely than the rest to develop BPH. But that kind of

studies only show that there is a correlation between the

consumption of NSAIDs and the risk of developing BPH, but not that the

drugs can prevent.

The team of Sutcliffe then investigated 4.771 men

aged 55 to 74, who were participating in a study

on cancer research. At the beginning of the study, be them

asked if the previous year had used aspirin and

ibuprofen.

In the last nine years he was diagnosed with BPH to 31 by

cent. But there was no evidence of a decrease of the risk in the

regular NSAID users at the beginning of the study.

Early stages

“This newborn is in the early stages of research”,

he said Sutcliffe, of the Washington School of medicine

University, in St. Louis.

Sutcliffe noted that a limitation of the study was to cover

only the use of NSAIDs during the year prior to entering the trial.

May be a prolonged consumption other effects.

In addition, could not explain why the results were so

other than the study of 2006.

A reason, he believed, could be that participants

use NSAIDs due to various problems. But that

information was not available.

And if future studies prove that NSAIDs reduce

the risk of developing BPH, what would happen?

On the one hand, Sutcliffe responded, that would suggest that you a low

doses of aspirin, which many older adults use to

protect their heart health, would have an added benefit.

It could also be that NSAIDs will serve to treat the symptoms

of BPH.

Source: BJU International, online March 19, 2012