Sexual Health: Johnson

Question 1

What we think is aging is actually?

Answer 1

Deconditioning

Question 2

When does optimal heterosexual sex take place? What is the rat rule ratio? What tone must rule sex and what sorts of drugs can help out?

Answer 2

In PLAY mode; 70:30;
parasympathetic;
PDE 5 inhibitors like sildenafil, vardenafil, taldalafil

Question 3

Testosterone is related positively with what? Negatively with what? What are four things associated with low testosterone?

Answer 3

Muscle strength and bone density; negatively with fat masses (decreased testosterone leading to increased visceral fat);
obesity, type 2 diabetes, cv disease, inflammatory disorders

Question 4

Chronic ____ causes sexual dysfunction

Answer 4

Pain

Question 5

What antihypertensive drugs inhibit sexual function? What drugs can promote it?

Answer 5

Beta blockers bad except nebivolol, all diuretics bad, digoxin bad; ACE inhibitors, A II antagonists good, Ca channel blockers okay, statins good

Question 6

Opioids _____ sexual functioning in ____ and _____. How else do they affect general health?

Answer 6

diminish; men, women; increase osteoporosis, fatigue, pain, depression

Question 7

How do antipsychotics and benzos affect sexual function?

Answer 7

Probably diminish it but evidence lacking

Question 8

_____ and _____ antidepressants are extremely _____ to sexual functioning, while what two drugs are sex positive?

Answer 8

SSRI, SNRI; toxic; buproprion, trazodone