More than half of the investigated sexually active
obese diabetic women and men complained about sexual dysfunction, which is much higher than in healthy lean subjects (342, 343).
Not exact matches
This system can pop into overdrive in
obese and
diabetic women who already have higher insulin levels and are prone to insulin resistance.
Diabetic women, on the other hand, are more
obese than
diabetic men in most studies and show a stronger association between increase of BMI and diabetes risk, despite similar curvilinear associations between increasing BMI and diabetes risk in both sexes (15).
On the other hand, an inverse correlation between plasma adiponectin levels and insulin sensitivity is seen in
obese and
diabetic subjects, which tends to be somewhat more pronounced in
women (45 — 47).