BACKGROUND Sexual function is an essential component of life. For this reason, sexual dysfunction can have a negative impact on the wellbeing of men and women alike. Since the turn of the 21st century, research on female sexual dysfunction (FSD) has gained momentum. While FSD is often assessed in people with ill health, sexual dysfunction is an illness of its own entity and is also prevalent in...

INTRODUCTION Cycling is growing in popularity among women. As in men, it is associated with genital neuropathies and decreased sensation in female riders. However, there is a gap in research and information addressing the relationship between cycling and female sexual dysfunction (FSD) in women. AIMS To review the literature investigating pelvic floor injuries and sexual dysfunction in female...

The National Health Survey (a large community-based study in women aged < 60 years) showed that 43% of 1749 women had some form of sexual dysfunction. FSD is certainly not a problem limited to young women; population census data from the USA show that ≈ 10 million American women aged 50–74 years self-reported some form of sexual dysfunction [1]. In a recently conducted international survey, whi...

Uncomplicated recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTIs) are common among reproductive-aged women. We aimed to assess the prevalence and predictors of sexual dysfunction (FSD) in a cohort of women with rUTIs and compare their psychometric scores to those of matched controls. Data from 147 rUTIs women and 150 healthy controls were analysed. Participants completed the International Prostatic Symp...

1. Abstract This paper presents a new fully stressed design method for the solution of the general weight optimization problem applicable to determinate trusses subject to displacement constraints. Fully stressed design (FSD) has been a popular method to perform structural optimization when only stress constraints are considered. It is attractive because it reaches the optimal design following ...

BACKGROUND Benford's law states that the distribution of the first digit different from 0 [first significant digit (FSD)] in many collections of numbers is not uniform. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether population-based cancer incidence rates follow Benford's law, and if this can be used in their data quality check process. METHODS We sampled 43 population-based cancer registry pop...

A model of ice floe break-up under ocean wave forcing in the marginal ice zone (MIZ) is proposed to investigate how floe size distribution (FSD) evolves under repeated wave break-up events. A three-dimensional linear model of ocean wave scattering by a finite array of compliant circular ice floes is coupled to a flexural failure model, which breaks a floe into two floes provided the two-dimensi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the female sexual dysfunction (FSD) in type 2 diabetes patients, by comparing the sexual function between type 2 diabetic women and non-diabetic women with Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). METHODS 115 type 2 diabetic women and 107 age-matched non-diabetes women were enrolled with similar backgrounds. Their sexual functions were evaluated with FSFI. Metabolic param...

conclusions overweight and obesity negative affect sexuality in women with sexual dysfunction. a systematic evaluation of sexual function to disclose a cause and effect relationship between obesity and fsd is suggested. objectives the purpose of this study was to investigate the association of body weight with fsd and sexual satisfaction, in ilam, western iran, in 2010 to 2011. patients and met...