In the present study cohort, married men with fewer than two members in their social network were more likely to have undergone surgery.
Although marital status is often used as a proxy for social support, we find that the quality of support and partner may impact treatment type more than the extent of the social matrix.
2012-03-14
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BJU international
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. kchamie [at] mednet.ucla.edu
BJU Int. 2012 Apr;109(7):1006-12
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