TY - JOUR
T1 - Erectile function and penile blood pressure in diabetes mellitus
AU - Schiavi, Raul C.
AU - Schanzer, Harry
AU - Sozio, Giampaolo
AU - Setacci, Carlo
AU - Stimmel, Barbara
AU - Rayfield, Elliot J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Raul C. Schiavi, M.D., and Barbara Stimmel, Ph.D., are at the Department of Psychiatry, Harry Schanzer, M.D., is at the Department of Surgery, and Elliot J. Rayfield, M.D.,is at the Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City. Giampaolo Sozio, M.D., and Carlo Setacci, M.D., are at the Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Siena, Italy. This work was supported, in part, by USPHS research, Grant DK 39106 and by a Grant (5M01 RR 00071) for the Mount Sinai General Clinical Research Center for the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health. We appreciate the valuable participation of Dr. Sheila Roman in this study. Address correspondence to Dr. Schiavi at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, 19 East 98 Street, Room 9A, New York, NY 10029.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Thirty-seven diabetic men selected to exclude the confounding effects of other medical illnesses and nondiabetic medications and 53 healthy controls underwent extensive psychosexual and medical evaluations and penile blood pressure assessments by ultrasonic Doppler measurement and mercury strain-gauge plethysmography. There was a significant negative correlation between age and the penile-brachial index (PBI) in the diabetic but not in the control group. The impotent diabetic group had significantly lower PBI than nondysfunctional diabetic and healthy control subjects. Diabetic type, complications, and adequacy of metabolic control were not statistically related to PBI. Although the PBI may not have diagnostic utility for individual patients, it may provide a valuable noninvasive physiologic measure of penile vascular changes in studies on the aged and the medically ill. The processes that mediate the interaction of diabetes and aging on penile blood pressure and erectile capacity deserve further investigation.
AB - Thirty-seven diabetic men selected to exclude the confounding effects of other medical illnesses and nondiabetic medications and 53 healthy controls underwent extensive psychosexual and medical evaluations and penile blood pressure assessments by ultrasonic Doppler measurement and mercury strain-gauge plethysmography. There was a significant negative correlation between age and the penile-brachial index (PBI) in the diabetic but not in the control group. The impotent diabetic group had significantly lower PBI than nondysfunctional diabetic and healthy control subjects. Diabetic type, complications, and adequacy of metabolic control were not statistically related to PBI. Although the PBI may not have diagnostic utility for individual patients, it may provide a valuable noninvasive physiologic measure of penile vascular changes in studies on the aged and the medically ill. The processes that mediate the interaction of diabetes and aging on penile blood pressure and erectile capacity deserve further investigation.
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U2 - 10.1080/00926239408403422
DO - 10.1080/00926239408403422
M3 - Article
C2 - 8035468
AN - SCOPUS:0028357384
SN - 0092-623X
VL - 20
SP - 119
EP - 124
JO - Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
JF - Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
IS - 2
ER -