Erectile Dysfunction: a Potential Useful Marker for Cardiovascular Disease
From: Département de psychiatrie, HUG, Genève. lucka.sekoranja@hcuge.ch
Revue médicale suisse
- Publish Date: Mar 2006
- ISSN: 1660-9379
- Volume: 2
- Issue: 58
- Pages: 774-6, 778
- Medium: Print
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- Citation (JAMA): Sekoranja L, Bianchi-Demicheli F, Gaspoz J M, et al. Erectile Dysfunction: a Potential Useful Marker for Cardiovascular Disease. Mar 2006;2:774-6, 778
Abstract
Erectile dysfunction is defined as the inability to achieve and/or maintain an erection sufficient to permit satisfactory sexual intercourse. Most cases of erectile dysfunction have a vascular etiology and, in patients with known cardiovascular disease, the degree of erectile dysfunction correlates with severity of that disease. In addition, cardiovascular disease and erectile dysfunction share the same risk factors for atherosclerosis and have a common pathophysiology (endothelial dysfunction); thus, erectile dysfunction appears as an early and sentinel symptom in patients with occult vascular disease, of the coronary or carotid arteries.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Biological Markers, Cardiovascular Diseases, Endothelium, Vascular, Erectile Dysfunction, Humans, Male, Risk Factors
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