Prevalence of erectile dysfunction and its correlates in Egypt: a community-based study

Abstract

We evaluated the prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) in a cross-sectional community-based random sample of Egyptian men. ED was correlated with the socioeconomic status, risk factors and quality of life. Married men in Ismailia province were interviewed at home. Data were processed for 805 men with mean age of 43.58 y (s.d. 11.03). There is a fair correlation between ED and increasing age (Po0.001). Males with complete ED comprised 13.2% of the sample, 26% of men in their 50s, 49% of men in their 60s and 52% of those 70 y or older. The state of better erection correlated fairly with sexual desire and sexual satisfaction (Po0.01). ED was associated with living in rural areas and lower socioeconomic level (Po0.01), with smoking, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, liver disease, arthritis, peptic ulcer and renal disease (Po0.05). ED was negatively associated with good quality of life (Po0.001). These results indicate that ED is a common problem among married Egyptian men.

Sexual problems among women and men aged 40–80 y: prevalence and correlates identified in the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors

“…Although there are a number of methodological differences between the various studies, such as the age range of the men included in the analyses and the definition of dysfunction that was applied, we have attempted to compare the estimates of prevalence of sexual dysfunction in GSSAB surveys with those reported in the literature (most published studies report only erectile dysfunction), including the US, 3,6,8,9 Australia, 17,18 Brazil, [19][20][21] Germany, 22 Italy, 20,23 Thailand, 24 Spain, 25 the UK, 4,26 Malaysia, 20 Japan, 20 Morocco, 27 Mexico, 28 Korea, 29 and other countries and subpopulations. 2,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] The ageadjusted estimates of prevalence of erectile dysfunction in GSSAB ranged from 13 to 28% across the seven regions. Similar estimates have been reported in studies conducted in Australia, 18 Brazil, 19 Egypt, 30 France, 31 Germany, 22 Netherlands, 32 Spain, 2 and UK.…”

“…2,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] The ageadjusted estimates of prevalence of erectile dysfunction in GSSAB ranged from 13 to 28% across the seven regions. Similar estimates have been reported in studies conducted in Australia, 18 Brazil, 19 Egypt, 30 France, 31 Germany, 22 Netherlands, 32 Spain, 2 and UK. 26 Considerably higher estimates have been reported in studies from Australia, 17 Belgium, 33 Brazil, 20,21 Finland, 34,35 Italy, 20 Japan, 20 Mexico, 28 Morocco, 27 Thailand, 24 Turkey, 36 USA, 6,8,37 and lower estimates in Denmark 38 and Sweden.…”

Cultural factors and sexual dysfunction in clinical practice

“…In primary care samples, age-adjusted rates of erectile dysfunction were found to be 43.4% in south-west Nigeria (Fatusi 2003), 13.2% in Ismailia province, Egypt (Seyam 2003), and 54% in Casablanca, Morocco (Berrada 2003). High rates of sexual dysfunction have also been reported in a series of studies from Kumasi, Ghana.…”

Estudo exploratório da relação entre função eréctil, disfunção eréctil e qualidade de vida em homens portugueses saudáveis

“…Os valores encontrados vão no sentido das investigações em geral que mostram que há correlação estatisticamente significativa entre aumento da idade e diminuição da Função Eréctil (Braun et al, 2000;Chew et al, 2000;Costa et al, 2003;Marumo, Nakashima, & Murai, 2001 Group, 2003;Rhoden et al, 2002;Seyam, 2003). Os resultados estatisticamente significativos embora modestos são entre os domínios Função Eréctil, Desejo Sexual e Satisfação com a Prática Sexual, e a idade.…”

“…A Qualidade de Vida (QDV) pode, por esta e por outras razões, ser uma variável fortemente associada à DE em homens saudáveis (Sanchez-Cruz et al, 2003;Seyam et al, 2003;Willke et al, 1998), ou doentes (De Berardis et al, 2002;Guest & Das Gupta, 2003;Litwin, Nied, & Dhanani, 1998;Meyer, Gillatt, Lockyer, & Macdonagh, 2003;Sasayama et al, 2003), e a melhora da DE associa-se a melhoria da QDV (Giuliano, Pena, Mishra & Smith, 2001).…”