Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 1 , Pages 107-112 , January 2007

Relationship between hypoactive sexual desire disorder and aging

Presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, Atlanta, Georgia, October 28-31, 2004.

  • Richard D. Hayes, B.Sc. (Hons.)

      Affiliations

    • Office for Gender and Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Australia
    • School of Population Health, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Richard D. Hayes: School of Population Health, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3010.
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  • Lorraine Dennerstein, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Office for Gender and Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • Catherine M. Bennett, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • School of Population Health, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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  • Patricia E. Koochaki, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Inc, Mason, Ohio
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  • Sandra R. Leiblum, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, UMDNJ, Piscataway, New Jersey
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  • Alessandra Graziottin, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Gynecology & Medical Sexology, H. San Raffaele Resnati, Milano, Italy

Received 24 January 2006 ,Revised 25 May 2006 ,Accepted 25 May 2006.

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 Conflict of interest: Patricia E. Koochaki is an employee of Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals Inc. Lorraine Dennerstein has received consulting fees from Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sandra R. Leiblum and Alessandra Graziottin have served as research consultants and also paid speakers for Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Catherine Bennett and Richard Hayes have no competing interests to declare.Financial support: The WISHeS was funded by Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The data was made available to the authors for this analysis.

PII: S0015-0282(06)03165-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.05.071

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 1 , Pages 107-112 , January 2007

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