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Yeni Üroloji Dergisi, vol.15, no.3, pp.200-206, 2020 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Objective: Over active bladder (OAB) is a situation characterized by urgency which nega-tively affects quality of life. Associations have been shown between situations like age, obesity, parity, DM and hyperlipidemia with OAB. In this study, patients attending a family practice clinic without urologic symptoms had demographic and labora-tory data researched for correlation with OAB.Material and Methods: A total of 100 female patients attending a family practice clinic had de-mographic features like age, height, weight, BMI, waist/hip ratio, and waist/height ratio and labo-ratory values like blood glucose, cholesterol, TG, hemoglobin, TSH, vitamin D3 and vitamin B12 compared for their effect on the OAB-V8 survey.Results: The OAB-V8 symptom score of pa-tients was identified to have correlations with age, weight, BMI, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, waist-height ratio and total cholesterol levels. El-evated total cholesterol, presence of more than one chronic disease, hemoglobin above 12 and central-type obesity were identified to increase OAB-V8 symptom score.Conclusion: OAB is a multifactorial disease and age, central-type obesity and more than one chronic disease may affect OAB symptoms.