20-Cigarettes-Per-Day-65-Risk-of-ImpotenceThe risk of cancer or heart disease won’t scare a heavy smoker, but this may make him think twice: men who smoke are at a high risk of developing dysfunction (). And the larger the number of daily smoked cigarettes, the higher the risk.

A new research investigated 4 763 Chinese subjects aged 35 to 74, who did not suffer of any blood vessel condition and who stated they had been sexually active six months before the investigation.

“The association between cigarette and dysfunction was found in earlier studies. However, most of those studies were conducted in patients with hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes and cardiovascular disease. What distinguishes this study is that it is the first to find this association among healthy men.”, said first author Dr Jiang He of Tulane University School of Public Health, New Orleans. Read the rest of this entry »