Link established between erectile dysfunction and calcified coronary arteries (USA)

In the largest study to date evaluating erectile dysfunction (ED) and coronary artery calcification, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have determined that men with ED are at a significantly increased risk of high coronary artery calcification scores (CACS), a known predictor of future cardiovascular events. The research was presented this week at the American Urological Association (AUA) meeting in San Francisco

Mayo Clinic study finds younger men with erectile dysfunction at double risk of heart disease

Men who experience erectile dysfunction between the ages of 40 and 49 are twice as likely to develop heart disease than men without dysfunction, according to a new Mayo Clinic study. Researchers also found that men with erectile dysfunction have an 80 percent higher risk of heart disease. "The highest risk for coronary heart disease was in younger men," says researcher Jennifer St. Sauver, Ph.D. The study was published in the February 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The results suggest that younger men and their doctors may need to consider erectile dysfunction a harbinger of future risk of coronary heart disease - and take appropriate steps to prevent it, says Dr. St. Sauver

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