Erectile Dysfunction May Mean Heart Disease

Watching TV nowadays one can notice that drugs treating erectile dysfunction are marketed to a younger group of men. Encouraged by a prominent sport figures, men want to get back in the game so to say.

In some researches it was stated that erectile dysfunction can be a sign of general arterial disease that can involve coronary arteries. It was also mentioned that a man with erectile dysfunction may need to be treated more intensively for high blood pressure, smoking, elevated cholesterol and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Thus, one needs not just to ask the doctor to prescribe some medicines, like tadalafil (Cialis), vardenafil (Levitra), or sildenafil (Viagra) , but a man wants to have the sexual strength for a long time, not just for some period of time. It was also proved that erectile dysfunction might be an early warning of blood vessel problems that can lead to heart attack or stroke.

In some researches it was found out that men in their mid-40s with erectile dysfunction have some subtle problems in the arteries.
The finding has implications for the treatment of both erectile dysfunction and prevention of heart disease and stroke.

There was launched another research in which drugs like statins, which reduce blood cholesterol levels, and ACE inhibitors, given for high blood pressure, can improve sexual performance of men with erectile dysfunction and on whom Viagra did not have an expected effect.

Scientists say that it will certainly take some time to get the results, but hey have some indications that results will be positive.

It was already mentioned above that erectile dysfunction has some link with heart diseases. It was also stated in some epidemiological studies. There was made a detailed examination of the brachial artery in the arms of the group of 30 men with erectile dysfunction and a control group of 27 men without the problem. They both did not know about the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking. The arteries of men with erectile dysfunction had a worse response to measures to make them expand, such as nitroglycerine tablets. That failure to increase blood flow, a known factor in erectile dysfunction, can also affect arteries in the heart and other parts of the body.

Scientists say that there is something abnormal about the smooth muscles in the artery walls. The results of this research promise to be positive and effective in some time, treating heart diseases and erectile dysfunction at the same time.

There was held another meeting, where there gathered several cardiovascular specialists and several urologists. They tried to decide how to approach erectile dysfunction problem, how to test the drugs, how to treat the disease. The results were published in the medical journal. Of course, these results need further explanation and confirmation, but it is a step forward to the acknowledging that men with erectile dysfunction have some problems with smooth muscle relaxation. Scientists say that a man with erectile dysfunction is warned that he may have the problem with arteries, and this disease may affect the coronary arteries. .

A flagging penis should raise the red flag of warning to evaluate the patient for arterial disease elsewhere.