William Atkins
Sunday, 08 February 2009 22:30
Science -
Health
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that men between the ages of 40 and 49 years who have erectile dysfunction had an 80% higher risk for heart disease later in life than those men of the same age range without ED.
The study comprised 1,402 men living in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, who did not have heart disease or erectile dysfunction when the study started on January 1, 1996.
During the Mayo Clinic study (the
Mayo Clinic medical facility is headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota), the men were checked for urological and sexual program every two years over the next ten years, ending on December 31, 2005. Each man had a regular sexual partner.
The male subjects also participated in a Brief Male Sexual Functions Inventory (BMSFI) that was developed by the Harvard Medical School (Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), which is a questionnaire used to help identify sexual problems such as erectile dysfunction.
The Mayo Clinic article
Younger Men With Erectile Dysfunction at
Double Risk of Heart Disease was based on the paper
A
Population-Based, Longitudinal Study of Erectile Dysfunction and Future
Coronary Artery Disease, which the researchers published in the February 2009 issue of
Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
According to the abstract to their paper, the reason why the study was undertaken was,
“To
assess the association between erectile dysfunction (ED) and the
long-term risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and the role of age as
a modifier of this association.”
The researchers involved in the Mayo Clinic study found that 2.4% of
men 40 to 49 years of age had erectile dysfunction, while 5.6% had it
between the ages of 50 and 59 years; 17.0% between 60 and 69 years; and
38.8% when 70 years and older.
Specifically,
“The CAD incidence densities per 1000 person-years for men without ED in each age group were 0.94 (40-49 years), 5.09 (50-59 years), 10.72 (60-69 years), and 23.30 (≥70 years). For men with ED, the incidence densities of CAD for each age group were 48.52 (40-49 years), 27.15 (50-59 years), 23.97 (60-69 years), and 29.63 (≥70 years).”
Page two continues with a comment by Dr. Sauver.
