Erectile dysfunction heart link

"Erectile dysfunction can provide an early warning of a heart attack two or three years before one occurs, an expert has claimed. Dr Geoffrey Hackett, a urologist from the Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham, said he regularly saw men referred to him with erection problems after a heart attack. Often they had developed erectile dysfunction (ED) years earlier. 'Erectile dysfunction is the manifestation of vascular disease in smaller arteries and gives a two to three year early warning of myocardial infarction (heart attack),' Dr Hackett wrote in a letter published in an early online edition of the British Medical Journal." - Channel 4 News