Male reproductive physiology as a sexually selected handicap? Erectile dysfunction is correlated with general health and health prognosis and may have evolved as a marker of poor phenotypic quality

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 179-184

  Cellerino, Alessandro ^a   Jannini, Emmanuele A ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; SILDENAFIL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EJACULATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; MATE CHOICE; MENTAL STRESS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENIS ERECTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; UREMIA; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 18944372165     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.10.020     Document Type: Article

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