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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sex Med. 2008 Jul 4;5(9):2209–2220. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008.00924.x

Table 2.

Spearman correlations between sex hormones, erectile function, and sex drive domains, Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA

Serum Hormones
Estradiol Testosterone Bioavailable Testosterone
r p-value r p-value r p-value
Erectile Function Domain‡
Unadjusted -0.01 0.92 0.14 0.02 0.16 0.01
Age-Adjusted -0.01 0.81 0.12 0.04 0.04 0.54
Adjusted* -0.03 0.66 0.11 0.06 0.06 0.34
Sex Drive Domain‡
Unadjusted 0.06 0.30 0.10 0.09 0.20 0.001
Age-Adjusted 0.06 0.32 0.08 0.17 0.09 0.15
Adjusted* 0.07 0.27 0.08 0.18 0.09 0.14
‡

Erectile Function and Sex Drive Domains - Questions on sexual function were from the Brief Male Sexual Function Inventory. The domains were calculated by summing the responses to specified questions.

*

Adjusted for age, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, mental health status, and smoking history