Saturday, April 12, 2008

Reduction In Sexual Satisfaction Is Not Associated With Cardiovascular Disease In Postmenopausal Women




Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) and collaborator countrywide personal found that subjugate sexual conformity contained by postmenopausal women, be not observably associated near cardiovascular microorganism. This become skilled at transmission up in the April 2008 distribute of The American Journal of Medicine.



Female sexual dysfunction is a prevailing environment and have be allied to a high load of medical illnesses that can be in somebody`s scope cardiovascular disease. In man, erectile dysfunction is clearly linked to the evolution of cardiovascular disease. Many of like device prearranged to be venture factor in show partiality towards of cardiovascular disease be proposition to be liable for sexual dysfunction in postmenopausal women, but this relationship has not been once look over using prospective facts.



Researchers examined data from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study. Participants be sexually pitiful postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years, recruit at 40 clinical centers for the period of the United States and follow for 8-12 years. Based by response to a baseline opinion poll, subject were classified in stick of sexually content or disgruntled.



Researchers identified cardiovascular disease at baseline and completed the continuation period. The attendance of cardiovascular disease be defined as a self-reported long-ago of acute myocardial infarction, small splinter, or coronary revascularization pathway. Related cardiovascular worries, also as congestive heart predicament, at a tangent arterial disease and angina were also examined.



According to researchers, nearby was a diffident association relating human being dissatisfied with sexual provoke and have peripheral arterial disease, and angina was decreased among those dissatisfied with sexual activity. However, there was no association between sexual displeasure and the presence of any other come together of cardiovascular disease including heart hold up or stroke. More importantly, there was no association between sexual dissatisfaction at baseline and the development of cardiovascular disease in the planned.



"In men, erectile dysfunction is a manifestation of cardiovascular disease, and can portend the development of adverse cardiovascular outcome such as heart attack," said orchestrate novelist Jennifer McCall-Hosenfeld, MD, MSc, a fellow in the Department of General Internal Medicine at BMC and Women's Health at BUSM. "In our study, we nearly new decreased sexual satisfaction as a proxy brand enduring for sexual dysfunction, and controlled for lifestyle issues and other factors that credibly will impact sexual satisfaction. We perform not find that sexual satisfaction predict cardiovascular disease in the future.



"Our study of sexually active postmenopausal women found dissatisfaction with sexual activity was not predictive of incident cardiovascular disease which may be in the red to physiological inequality in sexual certain between men and women, or to thorny circumstances measure sexual dysfunction in women," added McCall-Hosenfeld.



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