Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder Common in Women of All Ages

And women with HSDD were 11 times more likely than others to feel dissatisfied with their sex lives.

The prevalence of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) — defined as low sexual desire in women that causes personal distress — has not been determined definitively. In this industry-supported study, U.S. investigators used validated questionnaires to examine the prevalence of HSDD among four groups of women with sexual partners:

A younger cohort (age range, 20–49) comprised 414 premenopausal women and 89 surgically postmenopausal women, whereas an older cohort (age range, 50–70) comprised 252 naturally postmenopausal women and 197 surgically postmenopausal women.

Most of the women were white. Within each age cohort, surgically postmenopausal women were significantly older than the others. Almost 80% of the surgically postmenopausal women …

Reviewing Author

Robert W. Rebar, MD