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Prevalence of erectile dysfunction in community-based studies

International Journal of Impotence Research volume 16, pages 201–202 (2004)Cite this article

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The epidemiology of erectile dysfunction (ED) has been the subject of recent deliberations1 and review.2 While data on the prevalence of ED for specific age groups obtained in a community-based study with random population samples of adequate size may suitably reflect the status quo of the respective age groups in the community studied, it will be fallacious to assume that the overall prevalence of ED for the study represents the overall prevalence of ED in the community from which the random population samples have emanated, unless the age distributions of the study population and of the community studied are identical, a scenario that is usually neither feasible nor practical.

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