Posttraumatic stress disorder and the risk of erectile dysfunction: a nationwide cohort study in Taiwan : PTSD and erectile dysfunction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to investigate the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and the risk of developing erectile dysfunction.

Methods

In this population-based retrospective cohort study, we used Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database to analyze patients who were newly diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) between 2000 and 2013, with a 1:3 ratio by age and index year matched with patients in a non-PTSD comparison group, for the risk of erectile dysfunction.

Results

In total, 5 out of 1079 patients in the PTSD group developed erectile dysfunction, and 3 out of 3237 patients in the non-PTSD group (47.58 vs. 9.03 per 100,000 per person-year) developed erectile dysfunction. The Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the PTSD cohor

SUBMITTER: Wang SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8480081 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature