Erectile Dysfunction Warns of Heart Attack
Posted October 27, 2008 10:51 AM
Erectile dysfunction is the best predictor of male cardiovascular risk and can provide a two- to three-year heart attack warning, British researchers say.
Dr. Geoffrey Hackett, a urologist at the Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham, England, says he sees patients referred with erectile dysfunction after a heart attack, only to hear that they had developed erectile dysfunction two to three years before -- a warning sign ignored by primary care physicians.
It is well known that erectile dysfunction -- a symptom of vascular disease in the smaller arteries -- doubles the risk of heart disease, Hackett says. In addition, erectile dysfunction in type 2 diabetes has been shown to be a better predictor of the risk of heart disease than high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
Erectile dysfunction is still treated as a recreational or "lifestyle issue" rather than a predictor of a serious health problem, Hackett says in an article in the British Medical Journal.
"Continuing to ignore these issues on the basis that cardiologists feel uncomfortable mentioning the word 'erection' to their patients or that they may have to deal with the management of a positive response, is no longer acceptable and possibly, based on current evidence, clinically negligent," Hackett says in a statement.
Source: YellowBrix, United Press International
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Posted September 9, 2009 2:26 AM
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And on the whole, cardiovascular diseases (the combination of heart disease and stroke) kill some 950,000 Americans every year.
Still, there are many misconceptions about heart disease: "The biggest misconception is that heart disease only happens to the elderly,".
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Posted October 29, 2008 6:33 AM
Erectile dysfunction may well be a predictor of an impending cardiovascular event, but isn't the presence of this so-called "lifestyle" occurrence even more likely to be the result of prostate surgery or even, dear doctor, psychological problems? How convenient for the medical profession to characterize so important a dimumition of a major male fuinction as a lifestyle event. Is that what you think, doctor, when it happens to you? Oh yes, one more thing, where is the BMJ's author's scientific back up for it being well known that erectile dysfunction doubles tyhe risk of heart disease? Where, pray tell, are the statistics that remove tobacco use from the tested population?
Posted October 28, 2008 2:25 AM
i been useing viagra for past six years and iam only 37 now ,i can get erection but with out it but i get orgasem so fast maybe 2 min maximam ,please do u have any advice for me or is it the use of it for long time we stop the effect of it i get so shy to tell my wife i use that but please what is the best way to be normal againe?
Posted October 27, 2008 3:57 PM
Mine started after my wife passed away. I was not aware of the fact because she was in the hospital for almost six months came home and was confined to bed. No sex. After she passed away later I started dating. Got real close to one lady and she said let go to bed, nothing happened. The Dr change the BP pill I was taken, no help, went through a bunch of stuff even to a DR who specilized in that problem. He said that I most likey had what was very commen to new widowers. We have trouble getting back again. So after a bit it start to woke ok and we had a great time of it.
Now again I have AD but this is cause because I had my prostate removed when it got cancer. It was a choice have AD or die of Cancer. I choise living. Trouble now is that I don't have a releationship where it would matter any way.
Posted October 27, 2008 3:48 PM
Actually, in my case, I started to have erectile dysfunction 6 years prior to having a triple-bypass at age 62. I passed a stress test back then, but continued to have problems and kept gradually losing stamina. I actually believed it was related to not being able to oxidize enough blood, or get it to the right places. The doctors just blew it off as age related. Then last year, blew the stress test. Wish I had better diagnosing back about 6-8 years ago.
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