https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2014.500

The erectile dysfunction as a cardiovascular risk factor

Vol. 8 No. 4 (2014)
Submitted: 5 March 2014
Accepted: 2 June 2014
Published: 4 December 2014
erectile disfunction, cardiovascular risk.
Abstract Views: 1527
PDF: 802
HTML: 1535
Publisher's note
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Authors

Nathan Artom
nat.artom@hotmail.it
First Clinic of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa School of Medicine, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Genoa, Italy.
Giuliano Pinna
Internal Medicine, ASL AT, Asti, Italy.
Erectile dysfunction (ED), defined as the inability of the subject of the male gender to achieve and/or maintain an erection sufficient to permit satisfactory sexual intercourse, is a source of great discomfort for patients in everyday life. This condition has a high prevalence in the general population, although frequently underestimated in clinical practice. The purpose of this article is to review the epidemiology, the pathophysiology and the clinical features of this disease, emphasizing the importance of erectile dysfunction as an indicator of silent atherosclerotic disease.

Dimensions

Altmetric

PlumX Metrics

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

PlumX Metrics

PlumX Metrics  provide insights into the ways people interact with individual pieces of research output (articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and many more) in the online environment. Examples include, when research is mentioned in the news or is tweeted about. Collectively known as PlumX Metrics, these metrics are divided into five categories to help make sense of the huge amounts of data involved and to enable analysis by comparing like with like.

Citations

Crossref
Scopus
Google Scholar
Europe PMC

How to Cite

Artom, N., & Pinna, G. (2014). The erectile dysfunction as a cardiovascular risk factor. Italian Journal of Medicine, 8(4), 210–220. https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2014.500

PAGEPress has chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all manuscripts to be published.