A systematic review of the association between erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease.
Authors:Giorgio Gandaglia|||Alberto Briganti|||Graham Jackson|||Robert A Kloner|||Francesco Montorsi|||Piero Montorsi|||Charalambos Vlachopoulos
Journal: European urology
Publication Type: Journal Article
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2013.08.023
ID: 24011423
Affiliations:
Affiliations
Urological Research Institute, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Department of Urology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.|||Urological Research Institute, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Department of Urology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.|||Guys and St. Thomas Hospitals London, London, UK.|||Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.|||Urological Research Institute, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Department of Urology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.|||Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Institute of Cardiology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.|||1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: cvlachop@otenet.gr.
Abstract
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is considered a vascular impairment that shares many risk factors with cardiovascular disease (CVD). A correlation between ED and CVD has been hypothesized, and ED has been proposed as an early marker of symptomatic CVD.
