Research published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine has shown that asthma could be a cause of ED (erectile dysfunction) and the risk has been shown to increase the more severe the asthma is.
Information on 3,466 men who had just been diagnosed with asthma and who were between the ages of 18 and 55 was gathered between 2000 and 2007. The incidences of erectile dysfunction were recorded approximately four and a half years later and the data were compared to the information collected on 13,836 men without asthma: the control group.
114 men experienced ED and among this group were 34 patients (0.98%) who suffered from asthma and 80 (0.58%) from the control group. This indicates a 1.9 times higher incidence in ED cases with men who had asthma and the risk of experiencing this condition increased with the number of asthma related visits the patient made to their clinic.
There is not enough research to be certain that asthma treatment has anything to do with the progression of the condition of erectile dysfunction but the study is on-going. Erectile dysfunction has many causes but treatments will work for most. It is recommended that oral treatments like the three main PDE5 inhibitors, Viagra, Cialis and Levitra should be tried before more invasive solutions are employed.