Is the Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio an Indicator of Progression in Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?

Tanık, Serhat; Albayrak, Sebahattın; Zengın, Kürşad; Börekci, Hasan; Bakırtaş, Hasan; İmamoğlu, Metehan; Gürdal, Mesut

doi:10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.15.6375

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“…Tanik et al [29] reported that NLR is associated with IPSS, Qmax and clinical status of patients. In addition, PSA and IPSS were positively correlated, and Qmax was negatively correlated with NLR; NLR is more strongly positively correlated with these parameters than with erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and CRP.…”

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Association between Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio, an Indicator of Inflammation and Metabolic Syndrome

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Aim: There is a large body of evidence of clinical studies regarding the relation between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)-related lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men. A possible link between inflammation and these 2 clinical entities has also been proposed. Here, we aimed at evaluating the role of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), an indicator of inflammation and MetS, in the pathogenesis of LUTS and other BPH-related parameters. Method: We evaluated 244 patients with benign prostate hyperplasia admitted to our outpatient clinic between January 2014 and June 2015. NLR was calculated from the peripheral blood sample for all patients. Patients' anthropometric characteristics, serum lipid levels, waist circumferences, total prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and testosterone values, prostate volumes, max values and International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) were recorded. All statistical analyses were conducted by SPSS version 17.0 package program, and p value <0.05 was chosen as the criterion for statistical significance. Results: There was statistical significance between NLR and patients with severe IPSS score (>20) and over age 60 years (p = 0.02). Patients younger than 60 years had statistical significance between NLR and PSA <2.5 ng/dl (p = 0.004). When body mass index was selected, there was statistical significance between prostate volume <35 ml (p = 0.009) and age >60 years (p = 0.028). If 60 years of age was selected as cut-off value, there is statistical significance between age and severe IPSS, and in terms of mild erectile dysfunction, PSA >2.5 ng/dl, and prostate volume >35 ml. Conclusion: We found positive correlation between NLR and severe symptoms and progression of BPH. In this manner, anti-inflammatory therapy could contribute to the medical treatment of BPH. Higher NLR may be a candidate marker for severity of symptoms in BPH patients.

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Association between Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio, an Indicator of Inflammation and Metabolic Syndrome

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“…In recent years, the relationship between NLR and urological malignancies has been studied and it has been found that NLR was associated with poor prognosis in renal, bladder and castration resistant prostate cancer as well as other cancer types (Cetin et al, 2013;Sonpavde et al, 2014;Hermanns et al, 2014). It is reported that NLR can predict benigh prostate hyperplasia progression (Tanik et al, 2014).…”

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Importance of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio in Prediction of PSA Recurrence after Radical Prostatectomy

Gazel¹,

Taştemur²,

Açıkgöz³

et al. 2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: The aim of this study was to research the importance of the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in prediction of PSA recurrence after radical prostatectomy, which has not been reported so far. Materials and Methods: The data of 175 patients who were diagnosed with localised prostate cancer and underwent retropubic radical prostatectomy was retrospectively examined. Patient pre-operative hemogram parameters of neutrophil count, lymphocyte count and NLR were assessed. The patients whose PSAs were too low to measure after radical prostatectomy in their follow-ups, and then had PSAs of 0,2 ng/mL were considered as patients with PSA recurrence. Patients with recurrence made up Group A and patients without recurrence made up Group B. Results: In terms of the power of NLR value in distinguishing recurrence, the area under OCC was statistically significant (p<0.001) .The value of 2.494 for NLR was found to be a cut-off value which can be used in order to distinguish recurrence according to Youden index. According to this, patients with a higher NLR value than 2.494 had higher rates of PSA recurrence with 89.7% sensitivity and 92.6% specificity. Conclusions: There are certain parameters used in order to predict recurrence with today's literature data.We think that because NLR is easy to use in clinics and inexpensive, and also has high sensitivity and specificity values, it has the potential to be one of the parameters used in order to predict biochemical recurrence in future.

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“…[17,18] Other studies reported that NLR is useful in the early detection of PCa. [19,20] NLR has been more strongly and positively correlated with PSA than ESR or CRP in BPH. [21] Our study reveals that NLR is significantly associated with high serum PSA levels.…”

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Association between systemic inflammation and serum prostatespecific antigen in a healthy Korean population

Yun

Lee

Yang

2017

Turkish Journal of Urology

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Objective: Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) may be elevated in healthy men with systemic inflammation. We aimed to investigate the association between systemic inflammation markers and serum PSA in a healthy Korean population. Material and methods:A cohort of 20,151 healthy native Korean men without prostate disease between the ages of 40 and 65 years who underwent medical checkups were studied from January 2007 to December 2013. Serum total PSA and serum C-reactive protein concentrations, neutrophil, lymphocyte, and platelet counts were determined. The neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) were calculated. We checked the correlation between systemic inflammation markers and PSA.Results: Data obtained from 18,800 healthy men were analyzed. The mean age of the study subjects was 50.72±7.62 years and the mean NLR was 1.764±0.804. Correlation analysis after adjustment for age and body mass index (BMI) revealed that neutrophil count (coefficient = 0.028, p value <0.001), and NLR (coefficient = 0.027, p value <0.001) correlated with PSA. Multivariate analysis using the full model revealed that age, neutrophil count and NLR were positively correlated with PSA (p<0.001, 0.001, and 0.043 respectively). Multivariate analysis using a stepwise model revealed that age, neutrophil count and NLR were positively correlated with PSA (p<0.001, 0.001, and 0.040, respectively) and BMI was negatively correlated with PSA (p<0.001). Conclusion:Systemic inflammation markers are useful with a serum PSA in a healthy Korean population. NLR in particular is significantly associated with serum PSA.

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Is the Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio an Indicator of Progression in Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?

Cited by 23 publications

References 27 publications

Association between Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio, an Indicator of Inflammation and Metabolic Syndrome

Association between Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio, an Indicator of Inflammation and Metabolic Syndrome

Importance of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio in Prediction of PSA Recurrence after Radical Prostatectomy

Association between systemic inflammation and serum prostatespecific antigen in a healthy Korean population

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