Prevalence of Comorbidity Among Men With ED in the MALES 2004 Longitudinal Cohort.Prevalence of Comorbidity Among Men With ED in the MALES 2004 Longitudinal Cohort, Ian Eardley, St. James' University Hospital, UK; Craig Niederberger, University of Illinois at Chicago This article is about the University of Illinois at Chicago. For other uses, see University of Illinois at Chicago (disambiguation). UIC participates in NCAA Division I Horizon League competition as the UIC Flames in several sports, most notably Basketball. ; William Fisher, University of Western Ontario Western is one of Canada's leading universities, ranked #1 in the Globe and Mail University Report Card 2005 for overall quality of education.[2] It ranked #3 among medical-doctoral level universities according to Maclean's Magazine 2005 University Rankings. ; Raymond C. Rosen, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (often abbreviated RWJMS) is one of eight schools that comprise the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). RWJMS operates three campuses in New Jersey, in Piscataway, New Brunswick and Camden. ; Michael Sand, Bayer Healthcare We characterized the prevalence of self-reported comorbid diseases in a cohort of men with erectile dysfunction Erectile Dysfunction Definition Erectile dysfunction (ED), formerly known as impotence, is the inability to achieve or maintain an erection long enough to engage in sexual intercourse. (ED) followed for 3 years. Men (n = 808) ages 20-80 years with self-reported ED were recruited from the original Men's Attitudes to Life Events and Sexuality (MALES) 2004 cohort of 2,912 men with self-reported ED from eight countries (USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil), 30 months after the initial study. Self-reported comorbidities were assessed and compared with answers obtained from this cohort of 808 men in the 2001 survey. We found statistically significant increases in the proportion of men who self-reported diabetes (from 21% in 2001 to 30% in 2004), depression/anxiety (from 26% to 35%), and hypertension (from 44% to 51%), and non-significant increases in hypercholesterolemia Hypercholesterolemia Definition Hypercholesterolemia refers to levels of cholesterol in the blood that are higher than normal. Description Cholesterol circulates in the blood stream. It is an essential molecule for the human body. (from 43% to 48%) and cardiovascular disease/angina (from 26% to 29%) over the 30-month follow-up. These data provide further evidence that ED may be a sentinel for other vascular illness and suggest the need for awareness among clinicians of these comorbid associations. Further research to elucidate causality is needed. |
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