In the News – Men with ED Should Check Their Eye Pressure

Snippet from the article:

Men with erectile dysfunction (ED) have a nearly 3-fold greater risk for also having open-angle glaucoma (OAG) than men with normal erectile function, report researchers from Taiwan in an article published in the January issue of Ophthalmology.

A case–control study matching 4605 men with ED with 5 control patients each showed that after controlling for potential confounding factors, men with ED had an odds ratio (OR) for a prior diagnosis of OAG of 2.85 (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.10 – 4.07), write Shiu-Dong Chung, MD, from the Division of Urology at the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues.

“Our findings suggest that prospective studies should be undertaken to develop the appropriate clinical guidelines for evaluating concurrent or subsequent ED in OAG patients,” they write.

Read the rest at Medscape — Do Glaucoma, Erectile Dysfunction Have a Common Cause?

This isn’t hair loss related, but I’m sure there is a percentage of this site’s readers that are interested in ED-related studies.