Journal
JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
Volume 176, Issue 1, Pages 217-221Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(06)00589-1
Keywords
impotence; risk factors
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 55075] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL 35464] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose: We examined the impact of obesity, physical activity, alcohol use and smoking on the development of erectile dysfunction. Materials and Methods: Subjects included 22,086 United States men 40 to 75 years old in the Health Professionals Followup, Study cohort who were asked to rate their erectile function for multiple periods on a questionnaire mailed in 2000. Men who reported good or very good erectile function and no major chronic disease before 1986 were included in the analyses. Results: Of men who were healthy and had good or very good erectile function before 1986, 17.7% reported incident erectile dysfunction during the 14-year followup. Obesity (multivariate relative risk 1.9, 95% CI 1.6-2.2 compared to men of ideal weight in 1986) and smoking (RR 1.5, 95% CI 1.3-1.7) in 1986 were associated with an increased risk of erectile dysfunction, while physical activity (RR 0.7, 95% CI 0.7- 0.8 comparing highest to lowest quintile of physical activity) was associated with a decreased risk of erectile dysfunction. For men in whom prostate cancer developed during followup, smoking (RR 1.4, 95% CI 1.0-1.9) was the only lifestyle factor associated with erectile dysfunction. Conclusions: Reducing the risk of erectile dysfunction may be a useful and to this point unexploited motivation for men to engage in health promoting behaviors. We found that obesity and smoking were positively associated, and physical activity was inversely associated with the risk of erectile dysfunction developing.
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