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Health-Related Quality of Life and Quality of Sexual Life in Obese Subjects

The increased prevalence of obesity represents, currently, one of the major public health issues, due to its consequences on physical and psychological health status as well as on the psychosocial functioning. As defined by the World Health Organization, sexual health is “a state of physical, emotio...

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Autores principales: Poggiogalle, Eleonora, Di Lazzaro, Luca, Pinto, Alessandro, Migliaccio, Silvia, Lenzi, Andrea, Donini, Lorenzo M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24707290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/847871
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author Poggiogalle, Eleonora
Di Lazzaro, Luca
Pinto, Alessandro
Migliaccio, Silvia
Lenzi, Andrea
Donini, Lorenzo M.
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description The increased prevalence of obesity represents, currently, one of the major public health issues, due to its consequences on physical and psychological health status as well as on the psychosocial functioning. As defined by the World Health Organization, sexual health is “a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality.” The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between sexual life in obese subjects and quality of life, psychological status, and disability. Methods. 95 obese subjects were recruited from June 2012 to February 2013 and underwent physical examination and measures for the assessment of quality of life, sexual life, psychological status, and disability. Results. In obese subjects sexual life was related to gender, age, psychological status, disability, and quality of life. Conclusion. As obesity is a multifactorial disease, and is accompanied by multiple comorbidities, it is difficult to identify a single causative factor responsible for the impairment of sexual life in obese subjects; thus, a thorough, multidimensional evaluation including sexual function assessment should be performed in obese people.
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spelling pubmed-39534172014-04-06 Health-Related Quality of Life and Quality of Sexual Life in Obese Subjects Poggiogalle, Eleonora Di Lazzaro, Luca Pinto, Alessandro Migliaccio, Silvia Lenzi, Andrea Donini, Lorenzo M. Int J Endocrinol Clinical Study The increased prevalence of obesity represents, currently, one of the major public health issues, due to its consequences on physical and psychological health status as well as on the psychosocial functioning. As defined by the World Health Organization, sexual health is “a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality.” The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between sexual life in obese subjects and quality of life, psychological status, and disability. Methods. 95 obese subjects were recruited from June 2012 to February 2013 and underwent physical examination and measures for the assessment of quality of life, sexual life, psychological status, and disability. Results. In obese subjects sexual life was related to gender, age, psychological status, disability, and quality of life. Conclusion. As obesity is a multifactorial disease, and is accompanied by multiple comorbidities, it is difficult to identify a single causative factor responsible for the impairment of sexual life in obese subjects; thus, a thorough, multidimensional evaluation including sexual function assessment should be performed in obese people. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3953417/ /pubmed/24707290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/847871 Text en Copyright © 2014 Eleonora Poggiogalle et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pinto, Alessandro
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Lenzi, Andrea
Donini, Lorenzo M.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24707290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/847871
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