<p class="title">A large number of Indian-diabetic males experience problems in their sex life and the longer the disease is, the problems are more.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 83% of patients suffering from diabetes for 6-10 years, do experience some form of erectile dysfunction (ED) out of which nearly 11% face a severe form of ED.</p>.<p class="bodytext">For people having high blood sugar for 10 years and more, erectile dysfunction is seen in 78.6% individuals of which 16.4% have severe dysfunction, says a new study, carried out by doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The study provides fresh evidence on the debilitating impact of diabetes, which is India's biggest public health threat from non-communicable disease, affecting an estimated 50-million plus population.</p>.<p class="bodytext">For the study, the doctors picked 225 males, aged 18-65 years, with type 2 diabetes, visiting the hospital between August 2015 and June 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also 50 non-diabetic males in the same age group were identified as control.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They found that nearly 79% of them (173 diabetic patients out of 225) had some degree of ED whereas the prevalence in the non-diabetic group is 46%.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While this is in conformity with past research, Delhi doctors showed how the duration of diabetes increased the problems in unsuspecting patients.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The prevalence is the least among patients having diabetes for less than five years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“It happens with uncontrolled diabetes. The problem can be tackled to some extent if the blood sugar level is controlled,” Atul Gogia, one of the researchers involved in the study and a senior consultant at the department of medicine of the hospital, told <span class="italic">DH</span>.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Published in the journal <span class="italic">Current Medicine Research and Practice</span>, the study reports higher prevalence of the taboo-disease when compared against the findings of another study published almost nine years ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“For erectile dysfunction, there are treatments available— psychological, behavioual as well as medicine— if the affected individual shed inhibition and come to a doctor.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Another worrying finding is that even among non-diabetic individuals, there is 46% prevalence, which may be due to stressful life, lack of sleep, alcohol and tobacco use. We haven't studied the trend, but it is worth investigating,” Gogia said.</p>
<p class="title">A large number of Indian-diabetic males experience problems in their sex life and the longer the disease is, the problems are more.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 83% of patients suffering from diabetes for 6-10 years, do experience some form of erectile dysfunction (ED) out of which nearly 11% face a severe form of ED.</p>.<p class="bodytext">For people having high blood sugar for 10 years and more, erectile dysfunction is seen in 78.6% individuals of which 16.4% have severe dysfunction, says a new study, carried out by doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The study provides fresh evidence on the debilitating impact of diabetes, which is India's biggest public health threat from non-communicable disease, affecting an estimated 50-million plus population.</p>.<p class="bodytext">For the study, the doctors picked 225 males, aged 18-65 years, with type 2 diabetes, visiting the hospital between August 2015 and June 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also 50 non-diabetic males in the same age group were identified as control.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They found that nearly 79% of them (173 diabetic patients out of 225) had some degree of ED whereas the prevalence in the non-diabetic group is 46%.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While this is in conformity with past research, Delhi doctors showed how the duration of diabetes increased the problems in unsuspecting patients.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The prevalence is the least among patients having diabetes for less than five years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“It happens with uncontrolled diabetes. The problem can be tackled to some extent if the blood sugar level is controlled,” Atul Gogia, one of the researchers involved in the study and a senior consultant at the department of medicine of the hospital, told <span class="italic">DH</span>.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Published in the journal <span class="italic">Current Medicine Research and Practice</span>, the study reports higher prevalence of the taboo-disease when compared against the findings of another study published almost nine years ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“For erectile dysfunction, there are treatments available— psychological, behavioual as well as medicine— if the affected individual shed inhibition and come to a doctor.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Another worrying finding is that even among non-diabetic individuals, there is 46% prevalence, which may be due to stressful life, lack of sleep, alcohol and tobacco use. We haven't studied the trend, but it is worth investigating,” Gogia said.</p>
