Risk Factors for Prostatitis

 

Key risk factors:

(1) urinary tract instrumentation or trauma

(2) urethral stricture

(3) urethritis (often secondary to a sexually-transmitted disease)

(4) other urinary tract infection

 

Other factors:

(1) prostatic stone formation

(2) other causes of poor drainage of prostatic secretions (stasis)

(3) immunosuppression/immunodeficiency