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Question Title: Smoking and risk and heart disease and impotenceForum: The Heart Forum
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Doctor, From what I understand, impotence can be an early (or maybe not SO early) sign of heart disease in men. High levels of blood cholesterol, genetic factors, and smoking can all contribute to an eventual diagosis of heart disease in many (or most) individuals. Do you agree with this in general, or in specific, or both? I don't mean to "sound" like a professor; I'm just that interested. I have no cause. I'm a student. Dear Anna Smoking can definitely cause or contribute to erectile dysfunction. Diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as smoking, can cause heart disease, erectile dysfunction or both. Some of the medicines used for treating high blood pressure can interfere with the ability to have an erection. Therefore, men with erectile dysfunction should be screened for heart disease and the risk factors for heart disease. I hope you find this information useful. Information provided in the heart forum is for general purposes only. Only your physician can provide specific diagnoses and therapies. Please feel free to write back with additional questions. If you would like to make an appointment at the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center, please call 1-800-CCF-CARE or inquire online by using the Heart Center website at www.ccf.org/heartcenter. The Heart Center website contains a directory of the cardiology staff that can be used to select the physician best suited to address your cardiac problem.
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