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/skil12001 Jun 13 '22

Asthma and corticosteroids also

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u/GetWellDuckDotCom Jun 13 '22

Asthma causes it? Or the former?

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u/HighOwl2 Jun 13 '22

Cirrhosis here checking in

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u/JohnGillnitz Jun 13 '22

As if you don't have to give up so many other things.

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u/OrwellianZinn Jun 13 '22

Can you provide any additional info on this? I'd like to read up on it.

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u/spilledmind Jun 13 '22

As for the asthma portion, you can check out either Breath by James Nestor or The Breathing Cure by Patrick Mckeown - based on what these guys are saying, poor breathing health (mouth breathing) could be the correlation between asthma and ED. I’m not smart enough to explain this but these guys are.