Post Date December, 02 2023
Chronic prostatitis is a common disease in adult men. Clinically, it is often found that multiple members of a patient's family may have chronic prostatitis at the same time or in succession. For example, brothers, fathers, uncles, uncles, and even their grandfathers also had chronic prostatitis when they were young. These people are very concerned about whether other members of the family, especially their underage children, will develop chronic prostatitis in the future. Pseudoadenitis, which has similar symptoms, can cause great panic. So, can chronic prostatitis be inherited?
The genetic study of prostatitis is a new field in the etiology of prostatitis. Some studies have found that chronic prostatitis has a genetic predisposition, that is, in genetic research, patients have genetic loci that are susceptible to chronic prostatitis, that is, they have certain genes, which make them prone to chronic prostatitis, and these genes are hereditary. This seems to indicate that chronic prostatitis is hereditary. Even if there is a genetic predisposition, it does not necessarily mean that the disease will occur, but that it is susceptible to disease and can be affected and restricted by many other factors. In general, current epidemiological studies have not found that chronic prostatitis has significant heritability, so most scholars believe that chronic prostatitis does not have heritability.
So why do some families have multiple patients? In addition to the high incidence rate of chronic prostatitis, it is also related to bad habits with family tendency. In a family, living habits, economic conditions, and living environment are often similar, such as a preference for spicy food, excessive alcohol consumption, familial sexual habits, and nutritional and health conditions related to economic conditions. These similar factors are highly likely to be related to the onset of chronic prostatitis.
(Intern Editor: Huang Junda)
