Central Obesity is an Independent Predictor of Erectile Dysfunction in Older Men

Journal of Urology

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1519-1523

  Riedner, Charles Edison ^a   Rhoden, Ernani Luis ^a   Ribeiro, Eduardo Porto ^a   Fuchs, Sandra Costa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

impotence; obesity; physiological; sexual dysfunction

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LIPID; TESTOSTERONE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBESITY; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PENIS ERECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THIGH; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33748100067     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.06.049     Document Type: Article

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