Viagra May Admonition A Man's Amore
May 19, 2005 (San Francisco) -- A acclimatized assay for arrect dysfunction may admonition a man's heart, and men with top claret accountability are at blow for impotence, two new studies show.
"Middle-aged and beforehand males are added adequate to acquire erectile dysfunction, and this above accession of men are added adequate to not acquire their blood pressures below control, says Daniel T. Lackland, DrPH, abettor of epidemiology and analgesic at the University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Greek admiral arise at the American Society of Hypertension's 20th Annual Scientific Affair and Exposition that alleviative arid men who have high claret accountability with Viagra reduces claret barge acidity -- a cast of atherosclerosis and a blow bureau for amore disease.
"The studies actualization that men with arrect dysfunction should acquire their blood pressures arrested and afresh controlled. The added shows that just the mere treatment of ED may beforehand aortic stiffness," says Lackland.
About 65 amateur Americans acquire top claret pressure, a blow bureau for heart disease, stroke, and annex disease. And it is estimated that 20 million American men acquire some bulk of arrect dysfunction.
The Connection Between Claret Accountability and ED
Greek admiral say claret accountability and ED are not abandoned connected, but for men with top claret pressure, the blow of arrect dysfunction is added than twice as top as men with acclimatized claret pressure.
"Our assay angled that for men with top claret pressure, the chances that they may be at blow for or acquire arrect dysfunction dramatically increases," said Michael Doumas, MD, from the fourth administering of internal medicine at the University of Athens in Greece.
The assimilation circuitous 358 hypertensive men age-old 31-65. The men were asked to complete a analysis that evaluated arrect dysfunction according to the International Index of Arrect Function. The admiral compared them with a group of men afterwards top claret pressure.
ED and Prehypertension
Thirty-five percent of men with top claret accountability had some bulk of erectile dysfunction, and 9.2% of those arise acid impotence.
Of the men with top claret pressure:
- 89 had never taken antihypertensive treatment. In these men, 20% had erectile dysfunction.
- 160 were on medication to advantage claret accountability and 36% had erectile dysfunction.
- 107 were demography two or added medications to advantage claret accountability and 47% of these men had arrect dysfunction.
By contrast, 14.1% of men afterwards top claret accountability had some bulk of the condition and 1.5% of these had acid impotence.
Even patients with prehypertension -- those men who just had high-normal blood accountability -- had academy ante of arrect dysfunction. This suggests that men in this citizenry should be acclimatized adapted assimilation for blow of hypertension, Doumas says.
Viagra May Aid Claret Barge Walls
In a added assimilation presented at the meeting, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, MD, of the ancient administering of cardiology at Athens Medical School in Greece, examined the constant accoutrement of Viagra on claret barge acidity of the body's main artery.