Background. Multiple sclerosis
(MS) commonly affects young adults who may be sexually active, with
sexual dysfunction being a significant, but often underestimated,
symptom of MS. However, no large-scaled study has investigated the
association between erectile dysfunction (ED) and MS in an Asian
population to date.
Objective. The objective of this study is to
estimate the association between ED and a prior diagnosis of MS using a
population-based dataset with a case-control design in Taiwan.
Methods.
The data were sourced from National Health Insurance Research Database.
We identified 38,139 patients with ED as cases and randomly selected
262,848 subjects as controls. We then used conditional logistic
regression to compute the odds ratio for having previously received a
diagnosis of MS between cases and controls.
Results. The prevalence of
prior MS was 0.037% and 0.015% for cases and controls, respectively
(P < 0.001). Conditional logistic regression analysis revealed that
cases were 2.23 times (95% confidence interval = 1.15-4.32) more likely
to have been previously diagnosed with MS than controls after adjusting
for monthly income, geographic location, hypertension, diabetes,
coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and alcohol
abuse/alcohol dependence syndromes.
Conclusions. This study revealed an
association between ED and prior MS even after adjusting for potential
confounders..
The results say it all that MS may not be good for the sex life, but 2 times more likely than what as it needs to be in perspective some figure I found was about 25 cases per 1000 per year but this of course is age dependent. About 20% of 50-60 year olds may have some problems and it may occur in 18 million 40-70years in the USA. So if you have any problems talk to your neuro or nurse, because as you can see you are not alone or unusual.
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