Abstract
Until the beginning of the new millennium, sexual dysfunction in both men and women with diabetes was a rather overlooked issue. In recent years, a number of diseases, drugs and situations that contribute to erectile dysfunction have been known.
In addition to psychological diseases (depression, psychosis, anxiety, etc.), there are also vascular diseases (peripheral vascular diseases and hypertension), neurological diseases (peripheral neuropathies, central stroke and others), habits (smoking, alcohol) and last but not least metabolic diseases, which include diabetes mellitus in the first place, followed by thyroid dysfunction, hyperlipidemia, kidney and liver diseases. However, when we talk about disorders of reproductive functions in patients with diabetes, it is far from just sexual dysfunctions.
Due to their disease, patients with diabetes have a number of other complications and risks involving a wide range of organs and tissues related to reproductive functions. The aim and purpose of the book is to recall other possible non-traditional complications of diabetes, which are very little talked about.
These complications can significantly annoy many patients and in many cases cause depressed feelings and even clinical depression, which again worsens the patient's cooperation with the attending physician and the patients' approach to the treatment of their diabetes.