Prevalence and risk factors for female sexual dysfunction among Egyptian women

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 287, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1173-1180

  Ibrahim, Zakia Mahdy ^a   Ahmed, Magdy Refaat ^a   Ahmed, Waleed Ali Sayed ^a  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Female sexual dysfunction; FSFI; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EGYPTIAN; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; NULLIPARA; NYMPHOMANIA; ORGASM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PREMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL LIFE;

ADULT; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EGYPT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGASM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMATURE EJACULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878115434     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-012-2677-8     Document Type: Article

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