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August 2007 »
“Erectile Dysfunction and Smoking are linked”, Says Researchers
Friday August 24, 2007
Men addicted to cigarettes are at a high risk of getting erectile dysfunction. The more one smokes cigarettes, the greater the risk is, according to the study performed by Tulane University researchers.
Published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the study was conducted by a team of researchers directed by Jiang He, Professor of Epidemiology at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The researchers observed the relationship between cigarette smoking and erectile dysfunction in a 2000-2001 study carried out in China on 7,684 men. To evaluate the status of cigarette smoking and erectile dysfunction, the researchers made use of questionnaires and surveyed men with no vascular disease, were from the age group of 35-74 years.
The team noticed that there was a major arithmetical connection between the number of cigarettes burned by surveyed men and their probability of experiencing erectile dysfunction. The alliance between smoking and erectile dysfunction was found even stronger in the participants suffering from diabetes. According to the study, approximately 22.7 percent of erectile dysfunction cases amongst Chinese men might be credited to cigarette smoking.
Though ED is not an acute health condition, yet notably affects well-being and quality of life. The findings of Tulane study recommend that smoking deterrence should be employed as an imperative approach to the reduction of the possibility of erectile dysfunction.
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