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Sexual dysfunction in Assyrian/Syrian immigrants and Swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated sexual dysfunction in immigrant patients with type 2 diabetes in Sweden. The aim of this study was to examine the association between ethnicity and sexual dysfunction and to analyze if this association remains after adjusting for explanatory variables includ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3508838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23006970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-522 |
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author | Taloyan, Marina Wajngot, Alexandre Johansson, Sven-Erik Tovi, Jonas Sundquist, Kristina |
author_facet | Taloyan, Marina Wajngot, Alexandre Johansson, Sven-Erik Tovi, Jonas Sundquist, Kristina |
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description | BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated sexual dysfunction in immigrant patients with type 2 diabetes in Sweden. The aim of this study was to examine the association between ethnicity and sexual dysfunction and to analyze if this association remains after adjusting for explanatory variables including age, marital status, HbA1c, triglycerides, and hypertension. This cross-sectional study was conducted at four primary health care centers in the Swedish town of Södertälje. A total of 354 persons with type 2 diabetes (173 Assyrians/Syrians and 181 Swedish-born patients) participated in the survey. The main outcome measure was the self-reported presence of sexual dysfunction based on two questions, one regarding loss of ability to have sexual intercourse and the other loss of sexual desire. Response rates were 78% and 86%, respectively. FINDINGS: The total prevalence of loss of ability to have intercourse was 29.5%. In the multivariate models, the odds of loss of ability to have intercourse was significantly higher in the oldest age group (OR = 5.80; 95% CI, 2.33–14.40), in men (OR = 3.33; 95% CI, 1.33–8.30), and in unmarried individuals (OR = 2.40; 95% CI, 1.02–5.70). The odds of reporting loss of sexual desire was higher in Assyrians/Syrians than in Swedish-born patients and increased from 2.00 in the age- and gender-adjusted model to 2.70 in the fully adjusted model when all confounders were taken into account. CONCLUSIONS: Sexual dysfunction appears to be more common in Assyrians/Syrians than in Swedish-born patients. Health care workers should actively ask about sexual function in their patients with type 2 diabetes. |
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spelling | pubmed-35088382012-11-29 Sexual dysfunction in Assyrian/Syrian immigrants and Swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes Taloyan, Marina Wajngot, Alexandre Johansson, Sven-Erik Tovi, Jonas Sundquist, Kristina BMC Res Notes Short Report BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated sexual dysfunction in immigrant patients with type 2 diabetes in Sweden. The aim of this study was to examine the association between ethnicity and sexual dysfunction and to analyze if this association remains after adjusting for explanatory variables including age, marital status, HbA1c, triglycerides, and hypertension. This cross-sectional study was conducted at four primary health care centers in the Swedish town of Södertälje. A total of 354 persons with type 2 diabetes (173 Assyrians/Syrians and 181 Swedish-born patients) participated in the survey. The main outcome measure was the self-reported presence of sexual dysfunction based on two questions, one regarding loss of ability to have sexual intercourse and the other loss of sexual desire. Response rates were 78% and 86%, respectively. FINDINGS: The total prevalence of loss of ability to have intercourse was 29.5%. In the multivariate models, the odds of loss of ability to have intercourse was significantly higher in the oldest age group (OR = 5.80; 95% CI, 2.33–14.40), in men (OR = 3.33; 95% CI, 1.33–8.30), and in unmarried individuals (OR = 2.40; 95% CI, 1.02–5.70). The odds of reporting loss of sexual desire was higher in Assyrians/Syrians than in Swedish-born patients and increased from 2.00 in the age- and gender-adjusted model to 2.70 in the fully adjusted model when all confounders were taken into account. CONCLUSIONS: Sexual dysfunction appears to be more common in Assyrians/Syrians than in Swedish-born patients. Health care workers should actively ask about sexual function in their patients with type 2 diabetes. BioMed Central 2012-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3508838/ /pubmed/23006970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-522 Text en Copyright ©2012 Taloyan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Taloyan, Marina Wajngot, Alexandre Johansson, Sven-Erik Tovi, Jonas Sundquist, Kristina Sexual dysfunction in Assyrian/Syrian immigrants and Swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes |
title | Sexual dysfunction in Assyrian/Syrian immigrants and Swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes |
title_full | Sexual dysfunction in Assyrian/Syrian immigrants and Swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes |
title_fullStr | Sexual dysfunction in Assyrian/Syrian immigrants and Swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes |
title_full_unstemmed | Sexual dysfunction in Assyrian/Syrian immigrants and Swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes |
title_short | Sexual dysfunction in Assyrian/Syrian immigrants and Swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes |
title_sort | sexual dysfunction in assyrian/syrian immigrants and swedish-born persons with type 2 diabetes |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3508838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23006970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-522 |
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