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Highlights the importance of addressing psychosocial needs and the physician-couple relationship in managing cardiovascular disease and sexual health.
In sexual medicine, transforming the typical physician–patient relationship into a physician–couple relationship, focusing on the psychosocial fundamental needs and complaints of the couple, is mandatory. We know from reading The Journal of Sexual Medicine (JSM) that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for a significant number of sexual health problems, but is there more to the relationship than the obvious? Evidence supports the concept that social relations have protective effects on health in patients with CVDs [ 1 Löfvenmark C. Mattiasson A.C. Billing E. Edner M. Perceived loneliness and social support in patients with chronic heart failure. Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2009; 8: 251-258 Crossref PubMed Scopus (41) Google Scholar , 2 Rosengren A. Hawken S. Ounpuu S. Sliwa K. Zubaid M. Almahmeed W.A. Blackett K.N. Sitthi‐amorn C. Sato H. Yusuf S. INTERHEART investigatorsAssociation of psychosocial risk factors with risk of acute myocardial infarction in 11119 cases and 13648 controls from 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): Case‐control study. Lancet. 2004; 364: 953-962 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1648) Google Scholar ].
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