An up-to-date edited open access book on the role of sexual dysfunctions in general, and of erectile dysfunction in particular, i) to early predict non-communicable diseases, ii) to motivate patients to modify wrong lifestyles, iii) to improve follow-up efforts.

A part of the expert in sexual medicine, a large number of professionals will be interested in reading and quoting this book, from andrologists to urologists, from cardiologists to endocrinologists, from internists to mental health professionals.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access First book dealing with a new perspective of erectile dysfunction (ED) First book proposing ED as a biomarker of the entire family of non-communicable diseases Proposes a systemic perspective

Autorentext

Emmanuele A. Jannini, MD, OMRI, KSG, KHS, SMOCG, a Full Professor of Endocrinology and Medical Sexology (ENDOSEX) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, was a guest researcher and fellow at the Clinical Endocrinology Branch, NIDDK/NIH, Bethesda, and lecturer at St Catherine's College, Oxford on courses of the European Academy of Sexual Medicine. He has been a Visiting Professor of Andrology or Urology at the Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou), Anhui Medical University (Hefei), Jiao Tong University (Shanghai), Daxin Hospital (Xi'an), and Academic Advisor of the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; moreover, he is an Honorary Professor of Andrology & Sexual Medicine at the Hanoi School of Medicine and Distinguished Professor at the Third Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou).

Prof. Jannini is chairman of the Education Committee of the European Academy of Andrology, of the Multidisciplinary Joint Committee on Sexual Medicine of the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes, and of the Italian Academy for Couple Health; he is also past president and past general secretary of the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine and the Italian Society of Endocrinology, respectively.

He received the Gold Medal of the European Federation of Sexology and the Career Award of the European Society of Sexual Medicine. He served the International Society of Sexual Medicine as chairperson of the Education Committee (Educom) and of the Publication Committee (Pubcom), member of the University Committee of the Open Online University, and member-at-large of the Board of Directors.

Prof. Jannini is an international expert in andrology and medical sexology, having published more than 400 well-recognized scientific studies and books on premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, paraphilias, homophobia, gender incongruence, thyroid hormone receptor, and female sexual function and dysfunction, which produced, with more than 15000 citations, a Hirsch (H) index of 71 (Scopus). ORCHID ID: 0000-0002-5874-039X

Inhalt

The canary and the bone. A Darwinian lecture on erectile dysfunction.- Erectile Dysfunction: A Harbinger of Cardiovascular Disease Risk.- Glycemic Control and Erectile Function: Unraveling the Links with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.- Psychological and Psychiatric Underpinnings of Erectile Dysfunction: Anxiety, Depression, and Stress as a Predictor of Men's Health.- Lifestyle Interventions to Preempt Erectile Dysfunction and Associated Comorbidities.- Erectile Dysfunction as a Clinical Indicator of Endocrine Disorders.- From the Manichean dichotomy, through the biopsychosocial model, until the Systems Sexology, the final evolution of Sexual Medicine.