Effect of intensive glycemic therapy on erectile function in men with type 1 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We determined whether intensive glycemic therapy reduces the risk of erectile dysfunction in men with type 1 diabetes enrolled in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial.

Materials and methods

The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial randomized 761 men with type 1 diabetes to intensive or conventional glycemic therapy at 28 sites between 1983 and 1989, of whom 366 had diabetes for 1 to 5 years and no microvascular complications (primary prevention cohort), and 395 had diabetes for 1 to 15 years with nonproliferative retinopathy or microalbuminuria (secondary intervention cohort). Subjects were treated until 1993, and followed in the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications study. In 2003 we conducted an ancillary study using a validated asses

SUBMITTER: Wessells H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3220602 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature