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DIABETES CARE
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 1201-1203Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.28.5.1201
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Erectile dysfunction is an important cause of decreased quality of life in men (1,2). Strong epidemiological evidence links the subsequent risk of erectile dysfunction to the presence of well-recognized risk factors for coronary heart disease. such as increased body weight, hypertension, and dyslipidemia (3,4). Some have suggested that a diagnosis of erectile clysfunction is a sentinel event that should prompt investigation for coronary heart disease in asymptomatic men (5). We postulated an association between erectile dysfunction and the metabolic syndrome because four of the five components of the metabolic syndrome are risk factors for erectile dysfunction and are also characterized by abnormal endothelial function (6).
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