Open AccessIncreased risk of osteoporosis in depressive patients with erectile dysfunction: A cross-sectional study from Malaysia
Author(s) -
Abdul Rahman Fata Nahas,
Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_64_17
Subject(s) - erectile dysfunction , medicine , depression (economics) , osteoporosis , erectile function , bone mineral , cross sectional study , physical therapy , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
Depression imposes numerous changes on depressive men, promoting for low bone mineral density (BMD) and erectile dysfunction (ED), yet no published data on exploring the possible association between these two disorders among depressive men. We therefore investigated whether low BMD is associated with ED among depressive men and highlighted the possible mutual underlying factors that might give rise to these two disorders in this specific group of patients.