Determinants of sexual dysfunction among clinically diagnosed diabetic patients

Table 7 Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient between biochemical, socio-demographic and perceived IELT variables

Variables	HBA1c	Age	Edu	Income	Smk	Alc	Exr	Adeq.	Des.	TS	TL	WT	BMI	WC	WHR	FBS
Testosterone	-0.12*	-0.07	-0.08	-0.02	-0.09	-0.07	-0.09	-0.11	-0.12*	-0.16*	-0.06	-0.23***	0.02	-0.14*	-0.05	-0.12*
HBA1c		-0.07	-0.02	-0.07	-0.04	-0.06	-0.10	0.18**	0.13*	-0.01	0.17**	-0.03	0.03	-0.04	0.02	0.31***
Age			0.02	-0.16**	0.06	-0.06	-0.14*	-0.15*	-0.21***	-0.11	-0.09	-0.10	0.06	0.14*	0.02	-0.21***
Education (Edu)				0.24***	-0.16**	-0.03	0.07	-0.05	-0.09	-0.17**	-0.04	0.07	0.03	0.08	-0.02	0.02
Income					0.05	-0.07	0.02	-0.02	-0.01	0.00	-0.07	0.04	0.00	-0.01	-0.03	-0.02
Smoking (Smk)						0.14*	-0.04	-0.05	-0.05	-0.04	-0.08	-0.04	-0.01	-0.04	-0.01	0.02
Alcohol (Alc)							0.00	0.09	0.04	0.00	0.03	-0.03	0.03	-0.09	-0.05	0.03
Exercise (Exr)								-0.10	-0.03	-0.02	-0.10	0.18**	-0.01	0.02	0.00	-0.20***
Adequate (Adeq.)									0.83***	0.63***	0.60***	0.15*	0.02	0.06	-0.05	0.03
Desirable (Des.)										0.73***	0.66***	0.21***	0.04	0.07	-0.04	-0.02
Too short (TS)											0.34***	0.16*	0.05	0.09	-0.05	-0.09
Too long (TL)												0.12	0.06	0.03	0.00	-0.05
Weight (WT)													0.15*	0.42***	-0.01	-0.17**
Body mass index (BMI)														0.43***	-0.01	-0.08
Waist circumference (WC)															0.01	-0.09
Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR)																0.02

*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed), **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed), ***Correlation is significant at the 0.001 level (2-tailed). Boldface r = Pearson product moment correlation coefficient with a medium size (0.30 ≤ = r ≥ = 0.50) effect: boldface and underline r= Pearson product moment correlation coefficient with a large size (r> 0.50) effect, FBS = Fasting Blood Sugar

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