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Impotent Chinese too shy to see doctor
More than half of Chinese men over 40 suffer from erectile dysfunction at some point but wait too long to see a doctor, the first national survey of its kind has found.
The investigation covered more than 1,000 impotence patients in more than 10 cities for six months, Xinhua quoted Jiang Hui, deputy director of the reproductive centre in Beijing People's Hospital, as saying. More than 90 percent of sufferers conceded that the condition had badly disturbed their sexual lives and "influenced their own feeling of masculine spirit" at the same time, Xinhua said. The patients went to see their doctors on average 22 months after developing the condition, much longer than the average six months in Western nations, the survey said. "The unnecessary delay misses the best time for treatment and makes the disease more serious, and inevitably will influence reins between husbands and wives," Jiang said. Wang Yixin, professor with the Shanghai Andrology Research Centre, said that 80 percent of cases in China were physical while the other 20 percent are caused by psychological factors such as stress and depression. He said the only major barrier to Chinese patients was the expense of treatment -- Viagra, cost nearly 100 yuan (6.74 pounds) a tablet. Many Chinese drug makers were closely following the country's huge domestic market and were working hard to invent their own treatments, Xinhua said. |
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