Effect of cigarette smoking on sexual functions, psychological factors, and disease activity in male patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
İlknur Aykurt KarlıbelSeyhan Us DülgerMeliha Kasapoğlu AksoyMuhammet GuzelsoyAli Riza TurkogluLale AltanTekin YildizPublished in: The aging male : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male (2018)
Sexual function in AS patients is associated with the pain, fatigue, disease activity, functional status, quality of life, depression as well as the cumulative exposure to smoking, and that sexual functions tend to decline with increasing degree of cigarette dependency.
Keyphrases
- disease activity
- ankylosing spondylitis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- end stage renal disease
- sleep quality
- mental health
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- smoking cessation
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- depressive symptoms
- peritoneal dialysis
- pain management
- patient reported outcomes
- neuropathic pain
- spinal cord