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Association of Decreased Quality of Life and Erectile Dysfunction in Hemodialysis Patients by Rosas, Sylvia E.; Joffe, Marshall; Franklin, Eunice; Strom, Brian L.; Kotzker, Wayne; Brensinger, Colleen; Grossman, Eric; Glasser, Dale B.; Feldman, Harold I. is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: Quality of life in hemodialysis patients has been associated with treatment outcomes. we explored the impact of erectile dysfunction on quality of life in a cohort of hemodialysis subjects. ## Methods: A random sample of 302 philadelphia area hemodialysis (hd) subjects was enrolled using a cross-sectional design. subjects completed a self-administered questionnaire including items on sexual function, past medical history, and quality of life. linear regression (accounting for sampling design by weighted estimation methods) was used to examine the associations between various measures of quality of life (the dependent variables) and erectile dysfunction (ed) and other variables (the predictor variables). ## Results: We found the emotional domains of the sf-36, a multi-purpose, short-form health survey with 36 questions, to be more profoundly associated with ed than the physical domains. using the physical and mental components of the sf-12, a new 12-item short form health survey as predictors of ed, only the mental composite score (mcs) was statistically significant after adjusting for age and diabetes (p = 0.008). subjects with ed had significantly lower quality of l
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- Author
- Rosas, Sylvia E.; Joffe, Marshall; Franklin, Eunice; Strom, Brian L.; Kotzker, Wayne; Brensinger, Colleen; Grossman, Eric; Glasser, Dale B.; Feldman, Harold I.
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV; ScienceOpen (ISSN 0085-2538)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)