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Trouble Getting Excited: Women
wo r s t b e s t
How able women were to get
sexually exc i ted
Transplant
In-center
Hemodialysis
Transplant and peritoneal
dialysis may be about
the same.
Studies show just as many women
on each treatment have trouble
getting excited.
Here’s what one study showed:
Transplant may be about
the same or better than
in-center hemodialysis.
Studies show some women on
hemodialysis are just as able as
women with a transplant to get
sexually excited. Other women on
hemodialysis are a lot less able.
Here’s what one study showed:
Peritoneal dialysis and
in-center hemodialysis may
be about the same.
Studies show just as many women
on each treatment have trouble
getting excited.
Here’s what one study showed:
Peritoneal
Dialysis
In-center
Hemodialysis
Transplant Peritoneal
Dialysis
In one study, women on each treatment were just as able to get
sexually excited.
32 out of 100 women with a
transplant had trouble getting
sexually excited.
61 out of 100 women on peritoneal
dialysis had trouble getting
sexually excited.
32 out of 100 women on peritoneal
dialysis had trouble getting
sexually excited.
61 out of 100 women on in-center
hemodialysis had trouble getting
sexually excited.
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