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Seasonal fluctuation of erectile dysfunction: A cross‐sectional study from a tertiary university hospital across 10 years

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Erectile dysfunction (ED) shares several risk factors with diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HT) and coronary vascular disease (CVD), which were well‐associated with seasonal fluctuation with the highest peak in winter.… Click to show full abstract

Erectile dysfunction (ED) shares several risk factors with diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HT) and coronary vascular disease (CVD), which were well‐associated with seasonal fluctuation with the highest peak in winter. In this study, we aimed to determine whether ED demonstrates seasonal fluctuations with the above‐mentioned systemic diseases. Database from a tertiary university hospital between 2010 and 2020 was deciphered to retrieve patients diagnosed with ED. Patients with primary bladder tumour and post‐procedural ED constituted the negative control groups from the same study period. International index of erectile function questionnaire (IIEF‐15) was used to segregate included patients into mild/moderate and severe ED groups. The probability of detecting DM, HT and CVD in patients with severe ED was significantly higher than that of with mild/moderate ED (p < 0.05). More ED symptoms emerged and were diagnosed in the winter seasons even though no statistical significance was observed between patients with mild/moderate and severe ED (p = 0.946, Cramer's V coefficient = 0.19). The seasonal variation of patients with bladder tumour and post‐procedural ED groups showed no significant difference (p > 0.05, both). ED admissions are associated with higher peaks in the winter seasons. This may help in daily clinical practice to warrant better clinical and epidemiological interpretation of ED.

Keywords: tertiary university; seasonal fluctuation; university hospital; erectile dysfunction

Journal Title: Andrologia
Year Published: 2021

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