TY - JOUR
AU - Løkke, Anders
AB - EXPERT OPINION COPD and Sexual Health: What the Sexual Medicine Clinician Needs to Know 1 2,3 1,4 Ingeborg Farver-Vestergaard, PhD, Yoon Frederiksen, PhD, and Anders Løkke, MD Key Words: Dyspnea; Sexual Health; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Intimacy; Communication smoking did not appear to be significantly associated with ED in INTRODUCTION the meta-analysis from our previously mentioned review, and the Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a persis- development of ED in COPD is likely to include numerous, tent condition in the lungs and airways, causing dyspnea, cough interrelated, biopsychosocial explanatory factors. and excessive sputum production, along with systemic effects Therefore, while ED appears to be highly prevalent in such as fatigue, energy loss and muscle weakness. For a large COPD, it is important for the sexual medicine clinician to be proportion of the patients, the disease has considerable psychoso- aware of other biopsychosocial factors that are equally relevant cial consequences in terms of (i) symptoms of anxiety and for sexual health in COPD. A comprehensive assessment of sex- depression, (ii) feelings of guilt and self-blame related to current ual health in COPD will lead towards more optimal disease man- or former smoking, and (iii) passivity and isolation tendencies. agement 
TI - COPD and Sexual Health: What the Sexual Medicine Clinician Needs to Know
JF - The Journal of Sexual Medicine
DO - 10.1016/j.jsxm.2022.08.003
DA - 2022-09-21
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/copd-and-sexual-health-what-the-sexual-medicine-clinician-needs-to-TTcBitZqpj
SP - 1725
EP - 1729
VL - 19
IS - 12
DP - DeepDyve
ER -