The vast majority of diabetic patients, psychological factors and organic factors are likely to exist. These factors will lead to diabetic corpus cavernosum tissue apoptosis, reduction in the number; artery wall thickening, and stiffness; cavernosum endothelial cells and smooth muscle cell ultrastructure and mitochondrial degeneration, interstitial tissue, microvascular occlusion. Diabetic erectile dysfunction (ED) in the past commonly known as "impotence" means can not achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual life.
ED may be signs of diabetes on the period of
Compared with the general population, diabetic patients prone to occur earlier ED, its probability is about 8 times higher. ED could become one of the hallmarks of early diabetes. In endocrine and male out-patient clinics, there are a lot of people is because the ED and treatment, check blood sugar when found in diabetes.
The cause of ED patients with diabetes
The vast majority of diabetic patients, psychological factors and organic factors are likely to exist. These factors will lead to diabetic corpus cavernosum tissue apoptosis, reduction in the number; artery wall thickening, and stiffness; cavernosum endothelial cells and smooth muscle cell ultrastructure and mitochondrial degeneration, interstitial tissue, microvascular occlusion.
Patients with longer duration of diabetes. Poor glycemic control, smoking, concurrent high blood pressure and blood lipid disorders, taking easily lead to other ED drugs can increase the incidence of ED.
The consequences of ED
ED If you do not receive timely treatment, can lead to the following consequences: In the physical aspect, ED may be accompanied by other diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, depression, nervous system and prostate cancer and other diseases, if we neglect the Indian, will delay these diseases associated with The diagnosis and treatment; the emotional, expressed as irritability, depression, decreased self-esteem; in interpersonal skills, performance is not willing to exchange with others, confinement, escape; in sexual life, easily lead to premature ejaculation, low sexual desire, as well as the gradual ED increase, affecting quality of life; in family life that can lead to unhealthy living habits (smoking, excessive drinking, lack of exercise) can not be improved.
ED has been neglected because
From the patient's point of view. As most of the ED is not enough understanding of diabetes sufferers do not know when to go to hospital, and how to express the symptoms to doctors. In addition, the overhead for the treatment of diabetic patients have significant and undoubtedly added to the treatment of ED patient's economic burden.
From a doctor's point of view. Because a wide range of complications of diabetes, but most of the more complications can be dead or disabled, can cause a doctor in the field of endocrine enough attention to it relative to other complications, ED lethal disability is not that high. Combined with endocrine disease and male subjects belonging to the intersection of the medical profession does not paying sufficient attention to this; Also, for ED treatment, doctors refer to the limited resources available, coupled with their lack of experience, but also very difficult to have the relevant progress in .
From a social point of view, influenced by traditional cultural influences, subtle and introverted, and shy of the majority of sufferers the treatment of ED to hold negative and evasive attitude, whether the doctors or the patients do not feel comfortable publicly talking about ED.
Work together to pay attention to ED
As society advances, medical level has been greatly improved, various complications of diabetes and gradually brought under control, patients have more and more attention to their quality of life, diabetes with diagnosis and treatment of ED are more and more on the logical of people attention.
Men with diabetes sufferers, as it should, like attention to other complications like diabetes, attention to ED, take the initiative to understand their knowledge, positive prevention, actively cooperate with the medical examination, detailed medical history to tell, to overcome psychological barriers and active treatment.
Endocrine treatment practitioners in their daily work, should also be asked in detail about history, whether screening patients with complicated and India, the words "sexual function" as part of routine history taking. Authoritative international bodies have proposed a simple and effective diagnostic method of ED, the patient as long as the ED a self-test by filling out the scale, we can diagnose it with an initial ED.
