Washington: A new study has revealed that female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is more prevalent in women with hypertension compared to those with normal blood pressure.
Female sexual dysfunction is defined as persistent or recurring decrease in sexual desire, persistent or recurring decrease in sexual arousal, a difficulty in or inability to achieve an orgasm, and pain during sexual intercourse (dyspareunia).
Researchers who evaluated more than 400 women at an outpatient clinic in Greece found sexual dysfunction in more than twice as many of those with essential hypertension as those with normal blood pressure.
They also found that sexual dysfunction rates gradually increased in older versus younger hypertensive women, and that the longer a woman had hypertension the more likely she was to experience sexual dysfunction.
"These findings are significant because although hypertension affects more than 20 per cent of the general population, and is a known risk factor for male sexual dysfunction," said study presenter Michael Doumas, MD of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Athens.
"There have been no definite data on a relation between sexual dysfunction and hypertension in women," she added.
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