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Do Urologists Really Recognize the Association Between Erectile Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease?

Sexual medicine, 2020-06, Vol.8 (2), p.195-204 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Do Urologists Really Recognize the Association Between Erectile Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease?
  • Author: Li, Dongjie ; Li, Xiucheng ; Peng, Emin ; Liao, Zhangcheng ; Tang, Zhengyan
  • Subjects: Association ; Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) ; Erectile Dysfunction ; Erectile Dysfunction (ED) ; Questionnaire ; Urologists' Perception
  • Is Part Of: Sexual medicine, 2020-06, Vol.8 (2), p.195-204
  • Description: Erectile dysfunction (ED) and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) share many common risk factors. ED could be a strong independent predictive factor of CVDs. Furthermore, the treatment of ED had been shown to be beneficial for cardiovascular diseases. However, the association between ED and CVDs has been reported scarcely in the literature. To investigate urologists' perception, diagnosis, and treatment of CVDs in patients with ED. The study was conducted as a prospective study from November 2018 through February 2019, including urologists aged 18–64 years. All participants completed a survey of the knowledge of ED via an online questionnaire platform in 7 WeChat groups of urologists. WeChat is the most popular multipurpose messaging and social media in China. The main outcomes were the answers that urologists chose or filled. 449 urologists were included. Most of participants (375, 83.5%) agreed that CVDs are associated with ED. Only 231 participants (51.4%) thought ED was an independent disorder. The awareness of the association between ED and CVDs is significantly higher among male urologists than their female counterparts. Although 378 (83.6%) participants believed that the progression of these 2 diseases was consistent, only 181 (44.9%) would do conjoined assessment of both CVDs and ED. In addition, most urologists only considered conventional treatment, such as psychological intervention (341, 75.4%) and phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor (PDE5i) therapy (318, 70.4%) for their patients, whereas 339 urologists (88.3%) claimed that they would treat CVDs in patients with both ED and CVDs. 344 (76.6%) urologists showed some concerns over PDE5is. Urologists' assessment of CVDs in patients with ED was disappointing especially among young and female urologists or those working in underserved areas. Besides, the urologists' treatments of ED were not updated, and their attitudes toward the safety and effectiveness of PDE5is for CVDs were not optimistic. Li D, Li X, Peng A, et al. Do Urologists Really Recognize the Association Between Erectile Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease? Sex Med 2020;8:195–204.
  • Publisher: United States: Elsevier Inc
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2050-1161
    EISSN: 2050-1161
    DOI: 10.1016/j.esxm.2019.12.002
    PMID: 32007471
  • Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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    ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
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