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Friday, June 25, 2004Men with diabetes who also have trouble getting an erection may have heart disease and not realise it, Italian doctors say. The study is among the first to document what some experts had predicted with the advent of new drugs to treat erectile dysfunction - that they would help flush out men with heart disease but no serious symptoms apart from erectile problems. "If our findings are confirmed, erectile dysfunction may become a potential marker to identify diabetic patients to screen for silent coronary artery disease," said Dr Carmine Gazzaruso of Maugeri Foundation Hospital in Pavia, Italy, who led the study. Writing in the journal Circulation, Dr Gazzaruso and colleagues said theirs was the first study to evaluate how common erectile dysfunction was among men with type 2 diabetes and silent heart disease. It may be the first study, but it's long been conventional medical wisdom that when there's disease in the small blood vessels of one part of the body (penis, legs, kidneys, eyes) there's a high likelihood of disease in the blood vessels of the heart. posted by Sydney on 6/25/2004 09:30:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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