Table 5.
Reported Changes in Frequency of Sexual Activity in Relation to Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy
| Changes in frequency of sexual activity | Hormone replacement therapy |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | No hormones of any kind | Low-dose testosterone | Full replacement levels of testosterone | High-dose estrogen | Low-dose estrogen | |
| Decrease to non-sexual | 33 | 21∗ | 4 | 2∗ | 2 | 4 |
| Other decrease | 74 | 20 | 14 | 27 | 9 | 4 |
| No change | 62 | 13 | 10 | 28 | 7 | 4 |
| Increase | 14 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Total, n (%) | 183 (100) | 54 (29.5) | 31 (16.9) | 63 (34.4) | 21 (11.5) | 14 (7.7) |
| χ212,183 = 34.1, P < 0.05 | ||||||
∗
P < 0.002; significantly different from the expected frequencies.