Cardiovascular drugs and erectile dysfunction - a symmetry analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Erectile dysfunction is a common problem among patients with cardiovascular diseases and the influence of cardiovascular drugs is much debated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the short term potential for different cardiovascular drugs to affect the risk of being prescribed a drug against erectile dysfunction.

Methods

We employed a symmetry analysis design and included all Danish male individuals born before 1950 who filled their first ever prescription for a cardiovascular drug and a 5-phosphodiesterase inhibitor within a 6 month interval during 2002-2012. If the cardiovascular drug induces erectile dysfunction, this would manifest as a non-symmetrical distribution of subjects being prescribed the cardiovascular drug first vs. persons following the opposite patter

SUBMITTER: Rasmussen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4631194 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature