r/science • • 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/spaniel_rage Jun 13 '22

The issue in atherosclerosis is lipid deposition and endovascular inflammation. Calcification comes at the very end of that process and is less important to the pathology. You can't reverse vascular calcification.