New Delhi: Diabetic males suffering from diabetes type 2 could face problems in their sex life and the longer the disease is, the problems increase. As many as 83 per cent of patients suffering from diabetes for 6-10 years, do experienced some form of erectile dysfunction (ED), out of which nearly 11 percent faced a severe form of erectile dysfunction, says study.
For people having high blood sugar for 10 years and more, erectile dysfunction is seen in 78.6 percent individuals, of which 16.4 percent have severe dysfunction, says a new study, carried out by doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. 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.
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. Also 50 non-diabetic males in the same age group were identified as control. They found that nearly 79 per cent of them (173 diabetic patients out of 225) had some degree of ED whereas the prevalence in the non-diabetic group is 46
per cent .
While this is in conformity with past research, Delhi doctors showed how the duration of diabetes increased the problems in unsuspecting patients. The prevalence is the least among patients having diabetes for less than five years. "One of the interesting findings of our study was that longer the duration of Diabetes, more was the risk of ED. In our study, among patients with diabetes duration less than 5 years, 43.6 percent had ED with only 3.6 percent having severe ED.