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The objective of this study consisted in assessing the prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) and other sexual dysfunctions in a group of men who attended a prostate awareness week campaign. In total, 2715 men attended to ‘Semana de la Prostata 2001’ campaign and received an additional questionnaire on sexual health. The prevalence of ED, desire and ejaculatory disorders was of 41.7, 33.8 and 49.3%, respectively; however, not all of them lived these difficulties as a real sexual problem because only 918 men (37.8%) acknowledged having ‘any sexual difficulty’. Only 13.7% of the attendees consulted a physician for this reason in the past. This first Argentinean study proves the high prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in our population.
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Nolazco, C., Bellora, O., López, M. et al. Prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in Argentina. Int J Impot Res 16, 69–72 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ijir.3901140
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