Gerber RE, Vita JA, Ganz P, Wager CG, Araujo AB, Rosen RC, Kupelian V. Association of peripheral microvascular dysfunction and erectile dysfunction. J Urol 2015 Feb;193(2):612-7. Epub 2014 Sep 6.
Abstract
Increasing evidence of a link between erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease suggests a shared vascular etiology with endothelial dysfunction as a plausible underlying biological mechanism. To our knowledge whether this association is different for large arterial endothelium compared to microvascular endothelium has not yet been established. We investigated the association of erectile dysfunction with macrovascular and microvascular endothelial function.