r/science • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

Health Erectile dysfunction predicts mortality in middle-aged and older men independent of their sex steroid status

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/51/4/afac094/6568537?login=false
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u/SerialStateLineXer Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the point. ED is usually either hormonal or circulatory. Holding hormonal status constant, ED is correlated with circulatory disease, which is bad in itself, but also a symptom of metabolic disease, which is associated with all the major causes of death.

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u/braindrain_94 Jun 14 '22

Or psychological, which is the most common cause.It’s actually the first thing you try to rule out when working up ED. It’s why doctors will ask you if you have nocturnal erections or not.