Sexual function of the ageing male

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 581-601

  Corona, Giovanni ^a   Rastrelli, Giulia ^b   Maseroli, Elisa ^b   Forti, Gianni ^b   Maggi, Mario ^b  

^a BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

aging; erectile dysfunction; hypoactive sexual desire; late onset hypogonadism; orgasmic difficulties; premature ejaculation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; PRASTERONE; SILDENAFIL; TADALAFIL; TESTOSTERONE; VARDENAFIL;

AGING; ANEJACULATION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DELAYED EJACULATION; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG HALF LIFE; EJACULATION DISORDER; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FANTASY; FEMINIZATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART INFARCTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER; LIBIDO; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MARRIAGE; MASCULINITY; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MENTAL STRESS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PENETRATIVE SEX; PENIS ERECTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENESCENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SUPPLEMENTATION; TESTIS FUNCTION;

AGING; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE; LATE ONSET HYPOGONADISM; ORGASMIC DIFFICULTIES; PREMATURE EJACULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EJACULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGASM; PHOSPHODIESTERASE 5 INHIBITORS; PREMATURE EJACULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84884413220     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2013.05.007     Document Type: Review

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