Sexual Dysfunction before and after Cardiac Rehabilitation

Table 3

(a) Sexual activity and dysfunction in males as reported in questionnaires ($n=896$).

	baseline	end of OCR	P-value
No problems with sexual activity	366 (40.8%)	346 (38.6%)	.048
Decrease in libido	302 (33.7%)	313 (34.9%)	.324
Exhaustion during intercourse	58 (6.5%)	61 (6.8%)	.710
Problems with sexual function
(erectile dysfunction, no orgasm)	162 (18.1%)	203 (22.7%)	.0001
No sexual activity at all	191 (21.3%)	180 (20.1%)	.161

(b) Changes in sexual function during OCR ($n=896$).

After OCR	better	similar	worse
Problems with sexual function	36 (4.0%)	804 (89.7%)	56 (6.2%)
Decrease in libido	46 (5.1%)	793 (88.5%)	57 (6.4%)
Exhaustion during intercourse	13 (1.5%)	867 (96.8%)	16 (1.8%)
Erectile dysfunction/no orgasm	19 (2.1%)	817 (91.2%)	60 (6.7%)