12/10/2007

Erectile Dysfunction Epidemic

Simple calculation of the number of men suffering from erection violations, is a very easy task. In fact, people are not very inclined to discuss such issues with their spouses or close friends, not to mention the totally unfamiliar people who interview for a statistical study. However, according to the available information, impotence, of course, widespread phenomenon.


Alfred Kinzie, which is one of the first conducted in the 50-ies of the statistical study of male sexuality, found that the sexual disorders such as impotence, become more common with age and is prevalent among older men. Kinzie Studies have shown that suffer from impotency about 2% are male to forty years, 10% under the age of fifty years, 20% to sixty years of age and 30% were men over the age of sixty. These data were confirmed in the Massachusetts study of aging male body, the results of which were published in 1994. Moreover, it is not vidannoe earlier on coverage of the issues and depth study clearly showed that the impotence - a much more common phenomenon than Kinzie or someone else could imagine.


Massachusetts study of aging male body was carried out from 1987 to 1992, in the course of his were surveyed 1290 men selected randomly among residents of cities and towns near Boston. The men received special medical testing, aimed primarily at establishing their sexual activity, as well as giving some details about the way of life of harmful habits, medicine, which these people use most often.
If taken as a whole, all the cases the minimum, average and the total impotency, it turns out that the violations Mature suffer 52% of men. The researchers conclude: "Consequently, impotence is now one of the most common diseases."