PREVALENCE AND CORRELATES OF ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION IN A UNITED STATES NATIONWIDE POPULATION-BASED SAMPLE: PHASE I RESULTS
Culley C Carson*, Suzanne L West, Chapel Hill, NC; Dale B Glasser, New York, NY; Edward O Laumann, Chicago, IL; John M Flack, Detroit, MI; Eric Rimm, Boston, MA; Raymond C Rosen, Piscataway, NJ; Herman A Taylor, Jackson, MS; Richard H Grimm, Minneapolis, MN
This first national study of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men 40 years old and older with no upper age limit was designed to provide future prevalence estimates for black, white and Hispanic men. Only 1 previous epidemiological study of ED in the United States (National Health and Social Life Survey) included a nationally representative sample and the upper age limit was 59 years. In our earlier phase I study, we estimated the age specific prevalence of ED and evaluated the associations between ED and other co-morbidities. In the current cross-sectional study, we performed computer assisted and automated self-interviews via telephone in a nationally representative sample of nonHispanic white, nonHispanic black and Hispanic men 40 years old and older. Men were classified with ED if they were sometimes or never able to get and keep an erection that was satisfactory for sexual intercourse. Over the 5 months of the study, 491 nonHispanic white, 134 nonHispanic black and 195 Hispanic men were contacted through random-digit telephone dialing and interviewed. Overall, 49 percent of the men were always, 29 percent were usually, 14 percent were sometimes and 8 percent were never able to get and keep a satisfactory erection. ED estimates increased with increasing age. There was ED in 8 percent of 40 to 49-year-old men, in 19 percent of 50 to 59-year-old men and in 39 percent of men 60 years old and older. In addition to its association with age, ED was associated with diabetes. However, in this series ED was not related to ischemic heart disease, high cholesterol or hypertension. ED is common, since 22 percent of men 40 years old and older reported sometimes or never being able to get and keep an erection satisfactory for sexual intercourse; while 29 percent reported usually being able to do so. Thus, ED is significantly associated with increasing age as well as with diabetes.
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