Effect of chronic diseases on the sexual desire of Iraqi males

Abstract EN

Low sexual desire is a common problem.

There are many causes for such low sexual desire including psychological factors and physical illness (chronic diseases).

This study aimed to determine the effect of different chronic diseases on sexual desire of Iraqi males.

A cross sectional study in a questionnaire format was done for a randomized sample of 224 Iraqi male patients from December 2004 to November 2005 in 6 different Iraqi governorates.

Patients with chronic diseases were included in this study.

A questionnaire was prepared by the authors of this study and includes two parts: part one involve general questions about participant age, marriage duration, number of children and disease status.

Part two involves questions about the effect of chronic diseases on participant sexual desire, number of weekly sexual intercourses and whether the patient is using a treatment for his low sexual desire.

Diabetes mellitus was the most common (44.2%) chronic disease among participated patients.

More than 75% of patients with chronic diseases suffer from low sexual desire with a significantly higher percent (95%) for patients with cardiovascular diseases.

chronic diseases can lower sexual desire in young aged men; meanwhile cardiovascular diseases are the most dangerous chronic disease on sexual desire