Cialis, erectile dysfunction and heart disease

When you are young, it's difficult to keep everything in proportion. Emotions run fast and hot. One minute you can be feeling great, the next it's despair. In fact, it's remarkable how often you hear a teen suffering some embarrassment or humiliation voice the thought, "I wish I was dead!" Fortunately, very few act on the wish. We all come through these torrid times, hopefully calmer if not wiser. Yet, there are some humiliations men of all ages find it difficult to confront without fear. Erectile dysfunction is one of the more severe tests of calmness. For better or worse, Western culture is strongly "male". Yes, feminism assumed some importance and equality laws have followed, but the mainstream of behavior still expects the man to be dominant, not just in business but also in the bedroom. If something goes wrong with the ability to deliver erections when they are expected, this undermines a key plank in the structure holding up male self-confidence. Suddenly the man is not quite so macho. He is somehow less than a man.

For some time, the volume of evidence has been growing to prove a link between erectile dysfunction and heart disease. Indeed, the medical profession now view all men presenting with erectile dysfunction as potential heart patients until the contrary is proved. The reason is simple. Damage to the arteries causes strokes and heart attacks. The arteries leading into the penis are among the smallest and so most likely to show the first signs of damage. Treating the erectile dysfunction as the first symptom of heart disease has been saving lives. However, there's new research published this March. The team based in Ontario, Canada, has been following about 1,500 men diagnosed with heart disease. The first conclusion is the not surprising finding that the standard treatment for cardiovascular disease in general and heart conditions in particular has little or no effect on problems of erectile dysfunction. But the presence of erectile dysfunction doubles the risk of a heart attack. The news is dramatic. Men with erectile dysfunction and heart disease are twice as likely to die than men with heart disease who have good sex lives.

This research therefore reinforces the basic need for all men who begin to suffer erectile dysfunction to have a full physical check-up. Although everyone can go online and buy cialis from one of the pharmacies, this is only treating the symptom and ignoring the possibly dangerous underlying cause that may cause early death. For once, men have to be honest about their sexual health. There were a few years immediately following the launch of the little blue pills when men hurried to their regular doctors for a prescription. But as the online pharmacy industry has developed, men have slipped back into their old ways of secrecy. The fear of humiliation still stalks the male land. In one sense, it's actually unfortunate that cialis is so effective. Available in both an as-needed and a once-daily version, it provides relief for the vast majority of men without the need for them ever to see a doctor. If it was less effective, it would force regular consults and allow the doctors to monitor the possible development of heart disease. This would save thousands of lives every year. Let's hope the news media pick up this latest research - proof the risk of death is doubled should be a red flag to everyone suffering erectile dysfunction.