Scientists: drugs for baldness cause impotence
Drugs against baldness and to reduce the size of the prostate may cause loss of erectile function, the researchers found out Feinbergs school of medicine.
The results were published in the journal PeerJ.
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Men aged to 42 years, were taking medications for baldness for a long time (more than 205 days) is five times more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than those who took them short term.
One of such drugs was finasteride is a remedy affecting the testosterone production. It is used to increase hair growth or in the case of an enlarged prostate. Other — dutasteride — is also used to reduce the prostate. Total researchers collected data on more than 12 thousand males 16-89 years of age who took these drugs in 1992-2013 years.
On average, erectile dysfunction remained about three years after discontinuation of the drug. In addition, men are faced with decreased libido. Young people the most significant factor turned out to be exactly the length of treatment, not the dosage or the presence of diseases that increase the risk dysfunction diabetes or hypertension.