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A recent study showed that the pattern for erectile dysfunction onset might have changed in the last few years. A recent study, published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, has indeed found that one in four men seeking help for a recent manifestation of erectile dysfunction is under 40 years old. Paolo Capogrosso, from the University San Raffaele in Italy, has also found, with the help of other researchers, that almost half of the young men with erectile dysfunction (48.8%) had a severe form of the condition. The study involved gathering socio-demographic data from a single outpatient clinic.

The gathered data also showed that concomitant medical problems in young men were found only in 9.6% of the cases, compared to the 41.7% cases for older men.

In the past, erectile dysfunction at a relatively young age was thought to be due primarily to psychological factors rather than vascular problems. This study highlights that a more thorough medical inspection at the nature of young men’s erectile dysfunction is needed. Performing more thorough analyses on young male patients with erectile dysfunction can help doctors to pinpoint the causes leading up to the condition. As Irwin Goldstein (editor of the Journal where the study was published) underlines, understanding the specific factors that contribute to the problem, would improve the patients’ overall health a few decades from now.

This study has only taken into account results from a single outpatient clinic. Therefore, the reliability of the results has to still be tested by further research on the matter. We await more comprehensive data. You can find more information on the results and statistics gathered in this study here.





 
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