Erectile Dysfunction Drugs May Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Erectile Dysfunction Drugs May Lower Risk of Alzheimer's
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commonly used for erectile dysfunction sold commercially under brand names like Viagraa team of researchers from the University of Kentucky found that a treatment approved for multiple sclerosis also encouraged brain cells called microglia toThere has been some back and forth over the past few years about whether commonly used erectile dysfunction drugs known as phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (such asIn this new study, again observational, prescriptions issued to almost 270,000 men aged 40...

About half were prescribed sildenafil or a similar erectile dysfunction medication from the same drug class of PDE5 inhibitors, and 1,119 men went on to develop Alzheimer's disease. However, when patients were grouped by the drug they were prescribed, only sildenafil but not tadalafil or vardenafil was associated with a reduced risk.

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