Is there a relationship between severity of coronary artery disease and severity of erectile dysfunction?

Introduction The correlation between erectile dysfunction (ED) and coronary artery disease has been emphasized and ED has been recognized as a potential independent risk factor and/or predictor of coronary artery disease (CAD). We evaluated the association between the number of occluded coronary arteries in myocardial infarction (MI) patients with the severity of ED, and investigated the influence of related risk factors in our study group. Materials and Methods 183 male patients who underwent coronary angiography because of acute MI from November 2009 to May 2011 were included. Following t...