Erectile Dysfunction may call up Coronary Artery Disease

According to European Heart Journal Erectile Dysfunction more prone to be happening with men who have severe coronary artery disease. Impotence may pertain as warning of coronary heart disease as coronary diseases may follow impotence after 2-3 years. Basically Erectile Dysfunction is cardiovascular disorder often lead to other cardiovascular diseases, especially CAD (Coronary Artery Disease).

Erectile Dysfunction and Heart Diseases

In general cases, ED is very common in adults above forty. This age group is also very susceptible towards heart disease. And the main reason behind both the diseases is atherosclerosis i.e. hardening of arteries. Hence the possibilities of a man having ED, also may suffer from coronary heart disease is quite high.

Previously impotence used to be considered because of Psychological problem. But it had been manifested that the real cause is physical problem, mainly due to improper functioning of blood circulation. Erectile Dysfunction and coronary heart diseases both having same risk factors like diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol, depression, high blood pressure, obesity and lack of physical activity.

For the study, the researchers evaluated the prevalence of ED and its relationship with coronary atherosclerosis in men with documented coronary artery disease. They hypothesized that ED prevalence corresponds to the severity of heart disease.

Research and Study on Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

The study involved 285 patients with coronary artery disease who were divided into four groups. These groups included those with acute coronary syndrome and disease in one vessel; those with acute coronary syndrome and disease in two or three vessels; those with chronic coronary syndrome; and a control group of patients with suspected coronary artery disease but who were found by angiography to have normal coronary arteries.

Just over 22 percent of men who had coronary artery disease in one vessel had ED, compared to 55 percent of those with two-vessel disease, and nearly 65 percent in the group with chronic coronary syndrome.

Twenty-four percent of those in the control group had ED. Despite the difference in prevalence between men with one- and two-vessel disease, these men had similar symptoms. ED was associated with a four-fold increased risk of multi-vessel disease as opposed to single-vessel disease.

Ninety-three percent of men with both ED and coronary artery disease reported symptoms of ED one to three years before experiencing angina, with two years the average time.