Blood pressure, antihypertensive medication use, and risk of erectile dysfunction in men with type I diabetes.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To gain insight into the effect of blood pressure on the pathophysiology of diabetic erectile dysfunction, we determined the onset, severity and treatment of hypertension and risk of incident erectile dysfunction in men with type I diabetes. METHODS:This prospective cohort study included 692 men without prevalent erectile dysfunction in the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications study. Erectile dysfunction was assessed yearly for 16 years with a single question querying presence of impotence. Multivariable cox proportional hazards models examined associations of hypertension variables with risk for incident erectile dysfunction. RESULTS:Over 7762 person-years of follow-up, 337 of 692 men reported incident erectile dysfunction representing an unadjusted rate of 4

SUBMITTER: Sarma AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7223638 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature