Do LUTS Predict Mortality? An Analysis Using Random Forest Algorithms.

"Disclosure Jori S Pesonen has received a lecture honorarium from Astellas, Boston Scientific, and Ferring and attended a scientific congress as a guest for Orion. Teuvo Tammela has worked as a consultant for Astellas, Pfizer and Bayer AG. The other authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose for this work."

"The TAMUS study was financially supported by the Päivikki and Sakari Sohlberg Foundation and the Competitive State Research Financing of the Expert Responsibility area of Tampere University Hospital (9V065 and 9×055). State Research Funding (Finland) was used for data collection. The work of Jonne Åkerla was funded by the Finnish Urological Association. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."