Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a condition that results in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) leading to significant deterioration in patients' quality of life (QoL). BPH affects QoL by inducing psychological stress in patients due to anxiety and worsening their social function. The more severe the symptoms of BPH, the lower the QoL becomes. However, the QoL of BPH patients whose symptoms worsen due to aging has been shown to be significantly reduced. In the last few years, there has been an increasing trend of analyzing the effect of BPH symptoms on QoL and the most widely used therapeutic strategies.
The definition of quality of life was given by the WHO in 1947, but the first 5 papers with an analysis of these keywords in the Medline database appeared until 1973. From 1974, the number of professional papers that give an overview of the quality of life of patients began to grow exponentially, so that in the last decade there has been almost no professional communication that does not address this issue as a conclusion.