Erectile Dysfunction with finasteride studied
The study was released by the Britich Medical Journal which reported that the association of finasteride and Erectile Dysfunction when used for Benigh Proetatic Hypertrophy stated: “Our findings should be reassuring that the risk of erectile dysfunction is not higher for men who are prescribed finasteride or dutasteride for BPH or finasteride 1 mg for alopecia. Clinicians should be aware that the longer a man has BPH, the higher his risk for developing erectile dysfunction,” Katrina Wilcox Hagberg of the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program at Boston University School of Public Health, told Reuters Health by email.
The same was suggested in men who used the drug for hair loss, which they said “Similarly, in the cohort of men with alopecia (n=12,346), the risk of ED was not increased for users of finasteride compared with unexposed men with alopecia (IRR, 1.03; OR, 0.95).”.
What this says is that these drugs do not cause Erectile dysfunction. I am not sure that I believe this as some of the patients who I ahve treated have reported real one-on-one relationships between ED, libido and the drug finasteride, and when they stopped it, the symptoms always went away.
Here is the article which you can read for yourself. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/869443?nlid=109620_1001&src=WNL_mdplsfeat_161004_mscpedit_urol&uac=90007MX&spon=15&impID=1209180&faf=1
As per my comment above, your link is not to the study per se but to a newspaper article or web blog article describing the study. It would be of value to your readers to provide the link to the actual study, which is free and publicly available at PubMed:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=hagberg+finesetride
If you believe your readers are not able to interpret such articles and you need a lay person interpretation, you have actually done so yourself in the blog rather than relinking back to a news or web article that repeats the same info.
The fact that your blog has multiple misspellings (ahve, Britich) means that having a staff member spend a few more minutes on what is a brilliant blog would add value, making it go from an A to A+
Dr. Rassman. Only a very important question:
-Why we are in 2016 and people with MPB don’t have a better and a safer alternative to Finasteride?
Rassman is an old man at this point and clearly subjected to the confirmation bias. A truly wise and skilled doctor would analyze data from both perspectives and give an informed consent to his patients.
While this study itself claims to have no financial conflicts of interest, my understanding is that one of the doctors on this study was one of the original investigators for the Propecia trial. Additionally, the methodology is very poorly designed as usual because it is very difficult to test for rare side effects, especially when the patient will be embarrassed to self-report.
Besides referring readers to Web sites like MEDSCAPE that “describe” a research study results ala a newspaper story, why not also add a link to the publicly available National Institute of Health website that actually allows FREE download of the research study itself (see link below).
https://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4823.long
I tried finasteride for several months on 2 separate occasions, and both times it completely destroyed my sexual functioning until I stopped using it.