"Diabetes care" magazine reported that more than half of patients with type 2 diabetes erectile dysfunction problems exist, but only less than 1 / 3 of patients said their doctors had cared about this issue.
Italy Consorzio Mario Negri Sud Institute, Dr. Antonio Nicolucci and his colleagues investigated 1460 cases of male patients with type 2 diabetes in order to determine the prevalence of erectile dysfunction, as well as those issues impact the quality of life.
The researchers found that subjects often appear in erectile dysfunction, occasional erectile dysfunction erectile dysfunction and without the respective percentages of 34%, 24% and 42%. However, only 10% of men said their physicians often concerned about their sexual problems, while 63% of men claimed that their doctors never investigating these issues.
Erectile dysfunction in direct correlation with diabetes the degree of physical and psychological stress. Both types of stress with the deterioration of metabolic control increased.
There is the issue of male erectile dysfunction patients often complained of severe depressive symptoms, with no problems in this respect compared with patients whose mental health score and sexual life satisfaction is relatively low.
Nicolucci Dr. pointed out that "as far as we know, this is the evaluation of erectile dysfunction associated with diabetes quality of life a the largest study. Sexual dysfunction and quality of life are closely related, indicating awareness of diabetes in patients with erectile dysfunction is a a very significant public health problem, which also requires us to identify patients with erectile dysfunction to be a high degree of attention. "
