Lower Quality Of Life For Women With Lack Of Libido
Written by Jane Tucker | Sunday, 08 February 2009 | There is 1 comment
higher levels of depression, general fatigue, back problems and memory problems
New research done in the field of female sexual dysfunction shows that women who suffer from this condition have worse ‘health related’ quality of life when compared to women who had no complaints about the quality of their sex lives. The researchers compared hypoactive sexual desire disorder, (basically a very low or non existent libido) as being on a par with other illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma or osteoarthritis.
Dr Andrea Biddle from the University of North Carolina in the US examined the clinical data of almost 1,200 women who had experienced menopause. The women who ranged in ages from 30 to 70 all had been in a stable relationship for a minimum of 3 months. The researchers noted that the women who suffered from HSDD were generally less happy about their lives and their emotional and sexual relationships with their partners. They also noted that there were higher levels of depression, general fatigue, back problems and problems with memory.
Using a scoring system the researchers saw that women suffering from HSDD scored less when it came to a socialising, living well, having good mental health and generally not experiencing aches and pains. On this basis the researchers said that they could conclude that the problem of female sexual dysfunction was a “clinically relevant problem”.
This last statement is important because many people believe that female sexual dysfunction has been invented by drug companies in order to market and sell drugs to cure it such as the drug Intrinsa. The drug Intrinsa which is manufactured by Proctor & Gamble works by replenishing low levels of testosterone in the bloodstream which boosts female libido.
The research was reported in the journal ‘Value of Health’ which is published by the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research.
