Diabetes is a very common disease nowadays, and the onset of the disease is mainly in middle-aged and elderly people. The complications of diabetes, however, can have a significant impact on many patients. Sexual dysfunction is also one of the complications of diabetes. The reason is that diabetes can cause neuropathy and vasculopathy, and it is usually diffuse vasculopathy, so it can lead to atherosclerosis of the arteries inside the penis, narrowing or even occlusion of the blood vessels, and the blood supply to the penis is affected, which leads to sexual dysfunction, with impotence being the most common. According to statistics, impotence occurs in more than 60% of diabetic patients.
With the gradual increase in the duration of diabetes and the onset of systemic complications, sexual dysfunction generally occurs in patients with diabetes who have had the disease for more than 5 years, and the longer the disease has been present, the greater the chance of sexual dysfunction. Patients who have had diabetes for 10 years are more than twice as likely to experience sexual dysfunction than those who have had diabetes for 5 years. This incidence of sexual dysfunction also increases. In addition patients with diabetes who develop sexual dysfunction may also develop an ejaculatory disorder as time goes on.