predisposing factors for UTI
Last reviewed 01/2018
Risk factors for the development of a urinary tract infection:
- diabetes mellitus
- pregnancy
- impaired voiding of the bladder
- genitourinary malformation
- prostatic hypertrophy
- renal stones
Risk factors for asymptomatic bacteriuria in women include
- being sexually active
- increasing age
- concomitant diabetes
- institutionalised patients
- presence of a catheter (1)
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