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benign prostate symptoms :: Article Creator Dealing With Prostate Enlargement Prostate enlargement is an abnormal enlargement of the prostate gland causing variable degrees of bladder outlet obstruction. Photo: Health Day Prostate issues are estimated to affect 50% of men over the age of 50 years Benign prostate hyperplasia, or BPH, is estimated to affect 50% of men over the age of 50 years. Eighty percent of men 80 years old or older are affected by BPH. The prostate is a golf ball sized gland located around the urethra at the outlet of the bladder. It produces an alkaline prostatic fluid containing enzymes, minerals and proteins that nourish and protect sperm. It contributes to seminal fluid a secretion containing citric acid, phosphatase and other proteolytic enzymes which accounts for the liquefaction of semen. The rate of production of prostate fluid increases with active relations and stimulation. Enlargement of the prostate occurs...