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| Sexual dysfunction after renal replacement therapy |
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| Author(s): Diemont WL, Vruggink PA, Meuleman EJH, Doesburg WH, Lemmens WAJG, Berden JHM |
| Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES Volume: 35 Issue: 5 Pages: 845-851 Published: MAY 2000 |
| Times Cited: 44 References: 18 |
| Abstract: The existence of a sexual problem as the subjective evaluation of sexual function was assessed with a simple questionnaire. Those questioned were patients undergoing dialysis treatment (n = 400) or with a functioning renal transplant (RTx; n = 300) and both men and women in the general Dutch population (n = 591). In the Dutch control population, 8.7% of the men and 14.9% of the women reported a sexual problem, showing a significant gender difference but unrelated to age. In patients, the prevalence of a sexual problem was significantly greater (hemodialysis, men, 62.9%; women, 75.0%; peritoneal dialysis, men, 69.8%; women, 66.7%; renal transplantation, men, 48.3%; women, 44.4%). In RTx recipients, sexual problems were significantly less prevalent than in patients undergoing dialysis (P < 0.001), Only in male patients was an association between prevalence of a sexual problem and age found. The results of the simple questionnaire were sufficiently validated when 102 of 104 patients confirmed their responses in a subsequent structured interview. This study shows that the prevalence of sexual problems in patients undergoing renal replacement therapy is high and clinically relevant, (C) 2000 by the National Kidney Foundation, Inc. |
| Document Type: Article |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Diemont, WL (reprint author), Univ Nijmegen St Radboud Hosp, Div Nephrol 545, PB 9101, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands |
Addresses:
1. Univ Nijmegen St Radboud Hosp, Div Nephrol 545, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands
2. Univ Nijmegen St Radboud Hosp, Dept Urol, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands
3. Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6500 HC Nijmegen, Netherlands
4. Free Univ Amsterdam Hosp, Div Endocrinol, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Publisher: W B SAUNDERS CO, INDEPENDENCE SQUARE WEST CURTIS CENTER, STE 300, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3399 USA |
| Subject Category: Urology & Nephrology |
| IDS Number: 311WE |
| ISSN: 0272-6386 |
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