Journal
ANDROLOGIA
Volume 54, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/and.14527
Keywords
COVID-19; erectile dysfunction; Mendelian randomization
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This study using Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis found a causal relationship between genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 and an increased risk of erectile dysfunction (ED). This suggests that preventing COVID-19 could help reduce the risk of ED in the European population.
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) and erectile dysfunction (ED) have been linked in some observational research, but the causality of this association in the European population is uncertain. Therefore, the research intended to investigate the causality of susceptibility to COVID-19 on ED. We used Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis for this research. The subjects were from two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the European population, including COVID-19 (14,134 cases and 1,284,876 controls) and ED (6175 cases and 217,630 controls). We utilized the inverse variance-weighted (IVW) to evaluate the causality of COVID-19 genetic susceptibility on ED. Heterogeneity and pleiotropy were determined using the Cochran's Q test and MR-Egger regression. The robustness of the findings was verified using the Leave-one-out method. We obtained six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as COVID-19 genetic instrumental variables (IVs), and there was no significant pleiotropy, heterogeneity or bias in these IVs. MR analysis revealed the causality of genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 on elevated risk of ED (ORIVW = 1.235, 95% CI: 1.044-1.462, p < 0.05). The present study suggested the causality of genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 on elevated ED risk among the European population. Therefore, in order to decrease the ED risk, the European population ought to positively prevent COVID-19.
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