Tuesday 18 November 2008

Erectile dysfunction and heart attack

“Men who suffer impotence are being given an early warning sign that a heart attack is on the way,” the Daily Express reported. Men with the condition, which can be a sign of a hardening of the arteries, are 50% more likely to have a heart attack. It can serve as a warning sign to doctors up to three years before an event. It said that a urology consultant, Dr Geoffrey Hackett, had “blasted” fellow medics in a letter to the BMJ for not identifying impotence as a way of spotting those at risk. The newspaper said impotence is particularly good at showing heart attack risk in men with diabetes, and was more accurate at predicting heart attacks than high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

Complete Article:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/10October/Pages/Erectiledysfunctionandheartattackrisk.aspx

2 comments:

  1. That is quite scary but it is quite true that erectile dysfunction is a symptom of many serious underlying diseases like diabetes, heart problem and many more.

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  2. Erectile dysfunction is vary serious disease we can take timely precisions and heart attack is also serious disease if you take proper precotions then we should avoid these problems.

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