Dec 21, 2005

Impotence Heart Disease Connection

You may ask, what's the connection between impotence and heart attack? I didn't know one existed until today. A large study published today suggests men age 55 and older who are suffering from impotence may be at high risk of developing heart attack.

This study has found that men with impotence were more likely than other men to experience chest pain, a heart attack or a stroke during the next seven years.

The message is that men who see their doctors for impotence drugs also should consider getting screened for heart disease, says study co-author Dr. Ian Thompson of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

"There are many men who die suddenly of a heart attack, never having seen a physician and never having their cardiovascular risk assessed," Thompson said. "Some of these men may never have had a symptom of cardiovascular disease."

The study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Researchers already knew that heart disease and erection problems share risk factors, including obesity, smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and physical inactivity.

But the study is the first to look at a large group of healthy men and monitor them over time, Thompson said. Researchers used data on 8,063 men without pre-existing heart conditions who participated in a study on prostate cancer prevention.

The researchers found erectile dysfunction to be almost as good a predictor for cardiovascular disease as a family history of heart attack.

Daniel      

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