Erectile dysfunction: A harbinger for cardiovascular events and other comorbidities, thereby allowing a 'window of curability'

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1123-1126

  Miner, M M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; SILDENAFIL; TADALAFIL;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE, VASCULOGENIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67749137694     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: 17421241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2009.02084.x     Document Type: Editorial

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