Migraines are more common in men with impotence: study

new YORK (Reuters Health) – A study of Taiwan reveals

that men with erectile dysfunction are 63 percent more

likely than the rest to also suffer migraines.

El doctor Tobias Köhler, the Faculty of Medicine of the

Southern Illinois University in United States and specialist in

male fertility, said that he had never heard of the

relationship between migraines and impotence.

“Is an interesting first acknowledgement of the correlation,

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but in no way means that there is a relationship

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causal”, clarified Köhler, who did not participate in the study.

Is unknown the explanation of the relationship between the

erectile dysfunction (DE) and the headache, although the

migraines are associated with female sexual dysfunction

according to remind the authors in the journal Cephalalgia.

However, “no study so far had explored the

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relationship between migraine and the of”, writes the team of Dr.

Huang Chao-Yuan, the Faculty of Medicine of the University

National Taiwan.

In United States, some 20 million men suffer from

helplessness.

The team of researchers analysed the information of 23,000

men registered in a national database of

benefits of Taiwan. Some 5,700 had been diagnosed with

, which is the inability to maintain an erection. Then, be

compared with 17,000 men who had not used

treatments for impotence.

To 4.25 percent of men with of also be you

they had been diagnosed with migraines, compared to 2.64 per cent

of the group without of.

After considering differences among groups, such as

heart disease and diabetes, the team noted that the

participants with of were 1.63 times more likely than the Group

control to having received a prior diagnosis of migraine.

Age seemed to make a difference: men 30 to

40 years with of were two times more likely than males without

Of that diagnosticaran migraines.

El doctor Ege Serefoglu, of the Faculty of Medicine of the

Tulane University, considered that the results should be

interpreted carefully.

Serefoglu was of the view that the study was well done, but

that the results “should be confirmed in other countries, with

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other researchers before include migraines among the

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risk factors for the or vice-versa”.

Source: Cephalalgia, online March 9, 2012