Can Erection Difficulty predict Heart Disease?

If a man experiences symptoms of erectile difficulty, this could well be a signal indicating the presence of early but asymptomatic heart disease.

Thirty years ago men did not come to consult their doctors if they developed difficulty getting an erection. If they were unfortunate enough to suffer from what was then called Impotence they either put it down to the ravages of old age or tolerated it in silence.

All this however, has changed. In the first place, we now know that most men who experience Erectile Dysfunction (more commonly known by its acronym ED) are suffering NOT from a lack of male hormones or any deficiency in their masculinity, but simply from a reduction in the blood flow through the arteries supplying their male organs.

The importance of identifying erectile dysfunction in men is that the arteries supplying blood to the penis are just a tad smaller in diameter than the arteries supplying the heart muscle.