Statins can Improve ED in the Non-Responders of Viagra
Date: February 22, 2006
A new health research study showed some interesting results. Men who do not respond to Viagra treatment, show marked improvement in their response if given, Statins, the class of drugs to reduce cholesterol.
Viagra, as it is known, is effective in treating erectile dysfunction, the problem of male sexual dysfunction or impotency in men. Erectile dysfunction has a close connection with the vascular and coronary diseases. Vascular problems involve the abnormalities in the lining of the blood vessels. Normally erections are caused when nitric oxide is generated in the penis during sexual stimulation but with endothelial dysfunction, the body is not able to generate enough nitric oxide and hence it causes erectile dysfunction. Viagra prevents the inhibition of this little nitric oxide produced so that it can give erection to the penis.
Although Viagra affects positively to all such men who suffer from erectile dysfunction but there are still about 20%-30% men who do not respond to the Viagra treatment. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania school of Medicines conducted a test research on some men and found that cholesterol reduction drugs if administered to men suffering from erectile difficulties show a promising result when they are given Viagra after the cholesterol reduction drugs.
In a small double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study at Pennsylvania , the lead author of the research study, Dr. Howard C. Herrmann, of the University of Pennsylvania , school of medicines, gave a high dose lipitor to some 12 men suffering from ED who had earlier failed to respond to Viagra. After some time he again gave them Viagra and challenged them if their condition had improved. Results showed that after taking lipitor there was some improvement in the erectile function of these men, which strengthened the fact that erectile dysfunction may also be caused because of the cholesterol plaque clogging the heart, neck or the leg arteries.
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