Back to Search
Start Over
Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Patients with Erectile Dysfunction
- Source :
- The Scientific World Journal, The Scientific World Journal, Vol 2014 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2014.
-
Abstract
- Introduction. There is an increasing interest in the association between erectile dysfunction (ED) and cardiovascular risk factor. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is associated with insulin resistance, increased cardiometabolic risk, and coronary artery disease. Our aim was to investigate relationships between epicardial fat thickness (EFT) as a cardiometabolic risk factor and erectile dysfunction.Method. We selected 30 erectile dysfunction patients without comorbidities and 30 healthy individuals. IIEF-5 score was applied to all patients, and IIEF-5 score below 22 was considered as erectile dysfunction. EFT was measured by echocardiography.Results. Body mass index (BMI) was higher in ED patients than those without ED (28.19 ± 4.45 kg/m2versus23.84±2.36 kg/m2,P = 0.001, resp.). Waist circumstance (WC) was higher in ED patients than those without ED (106.60±5.90versus87.86 ± 14.51,P = 0.001, resp.). EFT was higher in ED patients compared to non-ED patients (0.49 ± 0.09 cm versus0.45 ± 0.03 cm,P = 0.016, resp.). There was positive correlation among BMI, WC, and EFT. There was negative correlation between EFT and IIEF-5 score (r : -0.632,P = 0.001).Conclusion. EAT, BMI, and WC as cardiometabolic risk factors were higher in erectile dysfunction patients.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Waist
Article Subject
Lipoproteins
lcsh:Medicine
lcsh:Technology
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Coronary artery disease
Insulin resistance
Erectile Dysfunction
Risk Factors
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Risk factor
lcsh:Science
Ultrasonography
General Environmental Science
Cardiometabolic risk
lcsh:T
business.industry
lcsh:R
Case-control study
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Erectile dysfunction
Cardiovascular Diseases
Case-Control Studies
Physical therapy
Cardiology
lcsh:Q
business
Body mass index
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1537744X and 23566140
- Volume :
- 2014
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Scientific World Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a79a8928524c0d2ee719f5796ae4881b