Why Does Diabetes Lead To Impotence

Impotence is a common complication of Diabetes. It can occur in 50~70% cases of patients over age 50. In the young patients, the incidence is slightly lower and it is about 20~30%. So, why does Diabetes lead to impotence?

It is attributable to several factors. As follows:

Firstly, Diabetes is a systemic disorder and it can cause diverse metabolic disorders. The patients often suffer from peripheral nerves damage, autonomic nerves and capillary injury. Generally speaking, erectile dysfunction in male patients is mainly related to nerve pathological change.

Secondly, impotence may occur when sex neurons are involved.

Thirdly, for metabolic disorders, less sex hormone is produced in body thus causing dysfunction and impotence.

What’s more, for high glucose level and fat level in blood, it is very likely to cause blood blockage and arteriolosclerosis. As a result, it will result in vascular narrowing and insufficient blood supplement thus resulting in impotence.
Meanwhile, irrational use of drugs can also give rise to impotence.

The above article has introduced the common causes of impotence in Diabetes. If you suffer from the problem, you should go for further inspection to find out its specific cause and take relative measures to relieve it.

Besides impotence, if the patients with Diabetes have a poor control of blood glucose, it will cause a series of complications such as Diabetic Nephropathy, Diabetic Foot, coronary diseases etc.

Diabetes is the most cause of Renal Failure in western countries. However, in the early stage of Diabetic Nephropathy, the patients do not present any noticeable symptoms. In most cases, it will develop into at least stage 3 and the patients have showed obvious clinical symptoms such as swelling, edema, high blood pressure etc. If the patients have a long history of Diabetes, they should go for further inspections to find out if it is related to renal injury.