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New life sciences study findings have been reported from Harvard University, Medical Department
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 29th, 2009
"We assessed whether widowhood is associated with risk of diagnosis with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) among older adults in the United States and whether the associations observed in men differed before and after the introduction of sildenafil, the first oral erectile dysfunction medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to analyze the time to first STI diagnosis in a random sample of married, Medicare-eligible couples aged 67 to 99 years in 1993 (N = 420790 couples)," scientists in the United States report.
"Twenty-one percent of male and 43% of female participants lost a spouse during the 9-year...
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