Seasonal fluctuation of erectile dysfunction: A cross-sectional study from a tertiary university hospital across 10 years.
Andrologia
; 53(5): e14019, 2021 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
Erectile dysfunction (ED) shares several risk factors with diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HT) and coronary vascular disease (CVD), which were well-associated with seasonal fluctuation with the highest peak in winter. In this study, we aimed to determine whether ED demonstrates seasonal fluctuations with the above-mentioned systemic diseases. Database from a tertiary university hospital between 2010 and 2020 was deciphered to retrieve patients diagnosed with ED. Patients with primary bladder tumour and post-procedural ED constituted the negative control groups from the same study period. International index of erectile function questionnaire (IIEF-15) was used to segregate included patients into mild/moderate and severe ED groups. The probability of detecting DM, HT and CVD in patients with severe ED was significantly higher than that of with mild/moderate ED (p < 0.05). More ED symptoms emerged and were diagnosed in the winter seasons even though no statistical significance was observed between patients with mild/moderate and severe ED (p = 0.946, Cramer's V coefficient = 0.19). The seasonal variation of patients with bladder tumour and post-procedural ED groups showed no significant difference (p > 0.05, both). ED admissions are associated with higher peaks in the winter seasons. This may help in daily clinical practice to warrant better clinical and epidemiological interpretation of ED.
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Disfunção Erétil
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Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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Male
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2021
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Article