According to Dr. Geoffery Hacket of the Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham, UK, men with erectile dysfunction are one and a half times more likely to have a heart attack.
“Continuing to ignore these issues on the basis that cardiologists feel uncomfortable mentioning the word ‘erection’ to their patients or that they may have to deal with the management of a positive response, is no longer acceptable and possibly, based on current evidence, clinically negligent,” he warned.”
Dr. Hacket adds that erectile dysfunction is a more pressing warning sign than high cholesterol or high blood pressure and even places men with ED at the same risk as being a smoker.