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What is Urinary tract infections?

Contents
  1. Urinary tract infections: Introduction
  2. Types of Urinary tract infections
  3. Prognosis
  4. Complications
  5. Prevalence
  6. Other names for Urinary tract infections
  7. Who gets Urinary tract infections?
  8. What causes Urinary tract infections?
  9. What are the symptoms of Urinary tract infections?
  10. Organs Affected by Urinary tract infections
  11. How is it treated?
  12. Society issues for Urinary tract infections
  13. Urinary tract infections: Introduction

What is Urinary tract infections?

  • Urinary tract infections: Infection of the urinary system; usually bacterial.
  • Urinary tract infections: infections affecting stuctures participating in the secretion and elimination of urine: the kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder and urethra.
    Source - Diseases Database
  • Urinary tract infections: any infection of any of the organs of the urinary tract.
    Source - WordNet 2.1

Urinary tract infections: Introduction

Types of Urinary tract infections:

Types of Urinary tract infections:

Broader types of Urinary tract infections:

How many people get Urinary tract infections?

Lifetime risk of Urinary tract infections: 1-in-5 women lifetime.

Who gets Urinary tract infections?

Profile for Urinary tract infections: General population, but sexually active women are at highest risk for disease. (Source: excerpt from Urinary Tract Infections: DBMD)

Gender Profile for Urinary tract infections: More common in women than men. Uncommon in boys and young men.

Gender Profile for Urinary tract infections: Women are especially prone to UTIs for reasons that are poorly understood. One woman in five develops a UTI during her lifetime. UTIs in men are not so common, but they can be very serious when they do occur. (Source: excerpt from Urinary Tract Infections in Adults: NIDDK)

How serious is Urinary tract infections?

Complications of Urinary tract infections: see complications of Urinary tract infections

What causes Urinary tract infections?

Causes of Urinary tract infections: see causes of Urinary tract infections
Causes of Urinary tract infections: Usually caused by Escherichia coli, but other Enterobacteriaceae are also important causes of infection. (Source: excerpt from Urinary Tract Infections: DBMD) ... Usually through fecal contamination of the urinary tract. (Source: excerpt from Urinary Tract Infections: DBMD)
Risk factors for Urinary tract infections: see risk factors for Urinary tract infections

What are the symptoms of Urinary tract infections?

Symptoms of Urinary tract infections: see symptoms of Urinary tract infections

Complications of Urinary tract infections: see complications of Urinary tract infections

Urinary tract infections: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Urinary tract infections.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Urinary tract infections.

How is it treated?

Doctors and Medical Specialists for Urinary tract infections: General practitioner, Primary care physician, Nephrologist, Urologist, Hematologist, Diabetologist, Pediatrician, General surgeon ; see also doctors and medical specialists for Urinary tract infections.
Treatments for Urinary tract infections: see treatments for Urinary tract infections
Prevention of Urinary tract infections: see prevention of Urinary tract infections
Research for Urinary tract infections: see research for Urinary tract infections

Society issues for Urinary tract infections

Hospitalizations for Urinary tract infections: 1.5 million in America (Kidney and Urology Foundation of America, 2002)

Hospitalization statistics for Urinary tract infections: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Urinary tract infections:

  • 0.11% (13,865) of hospital consultant episodes were for infections of genitourinary tract in pregnancy in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
  • 98% of hospital consultant episodes for infections of genitourinary tract in pregnancy required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
  • 100% of hospital consultant episodes for infections of genitourinary tract in pregnancy were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
  • 10% of hospital consultant episodes for infections of genitourinary tract in pregnancy required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
  • 1.2 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for infections of genitourinary tract in pregnancy in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Physician office visits for Urinary tract infections: 9.1 million visits were made to physician offices regarding urinary tract infections in the US 2000 (Weighted Analysis of 1999 NAMCS, 2003, NIDDK)
Physician office visit statistics for Urinary tract infections: The following are statistics from various sources about physician office visits and Urinary tract infections:
  • 8.318 million visits (NIDDK)
  • 9.1 million adult physician office visits in the USA 2001 (Weighted Analysis of 2000 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2003)
  • 7.9 million adult physician office visits in the USA 2000 (Weighted Analysis of 1999)
  • 10 million physician office visits in America (Kidney and Urology Foundation of America, 2002)
  • more statistics...»

Physician office visits for Urinary tract infections: In the United States, urinary track infections (UTIs) account for about 4 million ambulatory-care visits each year, representing about 1% of all outpatient visits. (Source: excerpt from Urinary Tract Infections: DBMD)

Organs Affected by Urinary tract infections:

Organs and body systems related to Urinary tract infections include:

Name and Aliases of Urinary tract infections

Main name of condition: Urinary tract infections

Other names or spellings for Urinary tract infections:

urinary infections, UTI

UTI Source - Diseases Database

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Urinary tract infections:


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