AIMS AND METHODS To describe patients with decreased libido during use of a HMG-CoA-reductase-inhibitor, and to discuss causality and pharmacological hypotheses for this association by analysis of the adverse drug reactions (ADR) database of the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb. RESULTS Eight patients were identified as having decreased libido during use of statins. In two of these ...

OBJECTIVE Circulating testosterone in women declines during the late reproductive years such that otherwise healthy women in their 40s have approximately half the testosterone level as women in their 20s. Despite this, research showing the benefits of androgen replacement has been limited to the postmenopausal years. In view of the known premenopausal physiological decline in testosterone, we h...

To determine the effect of energy intake on semen characteristics and libido, pubertal Angus (n = 10) and Senepol (n = 10) bulls (approximately 16 months of age and 816 lb) were stratified by age and weight between two treatments. Treatments were diets that provided 75% (LOW) or 150% (HIGH) of maintenance metabolizable energy requirements. Diets were group fed for 112 days (June through Septemb...

background: successful rehabilitation of cardiac surgery patients should include consideration of their sexual activity, but there is paucity of data regarding this matter. objective: this study determined the incidence and type of sexual dysfunction in our patients. materials and methods: two hundred-seventy nine men with age under 70 years old who had coronary artery bypass graft (cabg), valv...

Sexual performance has been subjectively measured with a libido test during screening of rams before public sale and breeding at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station from 1990 to 2000. The objective of this study was to determine whether sexual performance was genetically influenced. Sexual performance scores ranged from 1 to 6 with scores increasing from sexually inactive to highly sexually activ...

the novel , when nietzsche wept , by arvin d . yalom , has efficiently manifested the ties between literature and psychology , and it was so imperssive that immadiately a movie with the same name was made that became very famous and won many awards . the writer has aimed to demonstrate the psychoneurosis treatment of two western geniuses . in this essay , attempts has been made to evaluate the ...