Sexual function in patients with advanced heart failure
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Sexual function of patients with heart failure: facts and numbers
Approximately 60% to 87% of patients with heart failure (HF) report sexual problems, and numbers as low as 31% of HF patients younger than 70 have normal sexual function. When compared with healthy elders, the amount of perceived sexual dysfunction might be similar (around 56%), but patients with HF are reporting more erectile dysfunction (ED) and also perceive that their HF symptoms (20%) or H...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Heart Failure
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1388-9842
DOI: 10.1016/s1388-9842(00)80219-6