Erectile dysfunction linked to undiagnosed prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in young men
August 31, 2023. At 2:02 pm
Although erectile dysfunction has long been more common in older men with type 2 diabetes, emerging research from Saint Louis University School of Medicine finds that erectile dysfunction may indicate undiagnosed prediabetes and diabetes…
Although erectile dysfunction is more common in older men with long-standing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests Saint Louis University School of Medicine (United States) have found that erectile dysfunction indicates undiagnosed prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in young men under 40 years of age. In the study, published ‘preventive Medicine’Researchers designed the study to determine the risk of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in young men with and without a new ED diagnosis, and to determine the time between new ED diagnosis and the onset of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. Did. This retrospective study reviewed electronic health data from 1,915,468 patients between 2008 and 2022. The researchers found that patients who Erectile dysfunction increases the risk of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes by 34 percent. Additionally, 75 percent of patients developed prediabetes or type 2 diabetes within a year of diagnosis in the emergency department. “This points to a remarkable ability to predict the likely onset of a disease and treat it early with lifestyle or medication,” says Tucker. Funding came from the Saint Louis University Research Institute to maintain the virtual data warehouse, which contains de-identified patient data from more than five million SSM Health patients.