Love Protects Lover's Life

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 931-935

  Maggi, Mario ^a   Corona, Giovanni ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONELINESS; LOVE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY;

EID: 79953293524     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02230.x     Document Type: Article

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