3. Family History
Other than the risk factors that have already been mentioned in this article so far, there are other risk factors associated with BPH that might increase your risk of developing the condition at any point in your life. Some of the risk factors to look for include conditions like high cholesterol and high blood pressure, but it also extends to taking a closer look at your family history to see if any of the conditions happen there.
If you have any family history of men with prostate cancer, benign prostate hyperplasia, diabetes or any lifelong issues with the prostate, you can consider yourself at an automatically higher risk – and this is true even if the family member in question might not have been diagnosed during their lifetime.
Look for a family history of any health conditions (especially inherited ones) that go back as far as you can trace to understand your risk.