This is an important consideration because studies have suggested that people with diabetes are 50 percent more likely to have a heart attack than those who do not have the disease.
Did you know that erectile dysfunction medicine like Viagra may help ward off type 2 diabetes in people at risk of developing the disease? A new trial, funded by U.S. National Institute of Health, has discovered that Viagra may prevent pre-diabetics from developing a full-blown version of the disease, while simultaneously protecting diabetics from heart and kidney disease.
Erectile medicines such as Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra, have long been known to provide beneficial effects not only on erectile function but also on the function of the endothelium, the inner lining of blood vessels, explained Dr. Ronald Tamler, medical director at the Mount Sinai Clinical Diabetes Institute in New York City.
A second study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism confirmed the results. The study noted that sildenafil — the drug that treats erectile dysfunction – can prevent the advancement of type 2 diabetes in those with prediabetes. Dr. Nancy J. Brown, the author of the study from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., is certain that additional strategies, like sildenafil, are necessary to help slow the progression from prediabetes to diabetes. “Because existing drug therapies to prevent type 2 diabetes can have negative effects on the heart or be of limited use in patients with kidney disease, strategies to prevent diabetes without adversely affecting the risk of kidney and heart disease could have a large impact on public health,” Brown noted
The study funded by the National Institute of Health discovered that erectile dysfunction medication improved insulin sensitivity in overweight people diagnosed as prediabetic, helping the diabetic body to utilize the hormone more efficiently. Erectile dysfunction medication has also been connected to protecting prediabetics from heart and kidney disease.
This is an important consideration because studies have suggested that people with diabetes are 50 percent more likely to have a heart attack than those who do not have the disease. Professor Andrew Trafford and his colleagues at the University of Manchester in England notes that analysis of electronic health records from 2007 to 2015 of 6,000 men aged 40 to 89 say that their finding support research hailing the heart benefits of Viagra. Of the 6,000 test subjects 1,359 were prescribed erectile dysfunction medication. The study noted that the men using the erectile dysfunction medication were at 31 percent lower risk of mortality during the 6.9 years of follow-up analysis.
