High cholesterol generally does not directly affect the patient’s sexual function.
Common factors that may affect the patient’s sexual function include chronic systemic wasting disease, poor sexual partner relationship, anxiety, gonadal and genital diseases, drugs, nervous system dysfunction, etc., and high cholesterol is a risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke and other diseases, which may cause insidious and progressive damage to the whole body.
The direct damage of high cholesterol accelerates the atherosclerosis of the whole body, but there is no relevant scientific evidence to prove that high cholesterol will directly affect the patient’s sexual function, sexual function is affected by the patient can be adjusted by adjusting the rules of life, eliminating psychological factors, strengthen physical exercise, etc., and if necessary, can be treated with medication.
It is recommended that patients go to the endocrinology department of regular hospitals and other related departments for detailed consultation.