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<journal-id>1727-8120</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Humanidades Médicas]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev Hum Med]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1727-8120</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanísticas en Salud]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1727-81202022000100188</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Repercusión de la pandemia COVID-19 en la actividad sexual humana]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human sexual activity]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
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<surname><![CDATA[Hernández Figaredo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Pablo]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[García Gutiérrez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Laureano]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Psiquiátrico Provincial Docente Comandante René Vallejo Ortiz  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ Camagüey]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Policlínico Universitario Ignacio Agramonte  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ Camagüey]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>22</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>188</fpage>
<lpage>205</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1727-81202022000100188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1727-81202022000100188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1727-81202022000100188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN La producción científica sobre la pandemia COVID- 19 ha estado centrada sobre todo en las medidas de prevención y la atención al enfermo. Lo que al principio se comprendió como una infección respiratoria capaz de causar neumonía, ha demostrado ser una disfunción endotelial, por lo que es lógico pensar en su repercusión sexual. Se realizó una revisión de trabajos relacionados con dicho efecto en previas pandemias, con hincapié en la actual COVID- 19. Los trabajos coinciden en expresar que las condiciones de confinamiento, trabajo a distancia y limitación de actividad social, además del consiguiente efecto psicológico, ansiedad y manifestaciones depresivas, pueden ser capaces de provocar dificultades en el desempeño sexual masculino y femenino. Varios investigadores han demostrado vínculos entre la infección por COVID- 19 y la disfunción sexual eréctil, a la vez que se ha constatado un menoscabo del impulso y la respuesta sexual en el sexo femenino.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT Scientific production on the COVID- 19 pandemic has been focused above all on prevention measures and patient care. What was initially conceived as a respiratory infection capable of causing pneumonia has been shown to be an endothelial dysfunction, so it is logical to think of its sexual impact.This article consists on a bibliographic review on papers related to this repercussion in previous pandemics, and mostly in the actual COVID- 19. Papers reviewed sustain that the conditions of confinement, remote work and limitation of social activity, in addition to the consequent psychological effect, anxiety and depressive manifestations, may be capable of causing difficulties in male and female sexual performance.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[COVID- 19]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[actividad sexual]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[disfunción sexual]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[COVID- 19]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sexual activity]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sexual dysfunction]]></kwd>
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