FREE Community Health Talk to focus on Diabetes and Erectile Dysfunction
Little Company News
11/09/2007
FREE Community Health Talk to focus on Diabetes and Erectile Dysfunction
Evergreen Park, Ill. - November 8, 2007 - During the month of November, American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Erectile Dysfunction Institute (EDi) encourage all diabetic men experiencing erectile dysfunction (ED) to ask their doctor about being screened for cardiovascular disease.
This important new insight regarding erectile dysfunction (ED) as an indicator to diabetes and cardiovascular disease will be the focus of a community education series on World Diabetes Day, Wednesday, November 14 at 6:30 p.m. The program will be held in the lower level of Little Company of Mary's Physician's Pavilion, located at 2850 West 95th Street.
This timely seminar will cover conditions and solutions that are available to men and their partners. Insights to appropriate next steps and treatment options for both ED and Diabetes will be covered by a leading urologist, Dr. James Sylora.
'ED is an under-recognized and under-discussed complication of diabetes,' states Dr. Sylora. 'What most patients don't realize is that coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death among diabetics - and vascular dysfunction has been proven to be an early warning sign of cardiovascular disease.'
ED is often associated with vascular dysfunction, or impaired blood flow. If a patient is experiencing ED, it can be speculated that the impaired blood flow could be problematic in other areas of the body, especially the heart. Men with diabetes are three to four times more likely to have vascular disease leading to strokes and heart attacks than men who are not diabetic.
More alarmingly, a recently published study shows that hospitalization and death rates due to diabetes-related heart attack is increasing. In the decade-long New York City study, all cause-specific death rates declined, with the striking exception of diabetes, which actually increased 61 percent in men.1
'The key, of course, is to prevent diabetes in the first place,' concludes Dr. Sylora. 'That comes down to lifestyle choices for adults and children - eating right and getting plenty of exercise. Unfortunately, we are seeing more and more teenagers being diagnosed with type 2, or adult onset, diabetes. In males, that can lead to complications like ED when they are only in their 30s.'
To register for the November 14th program, call 877.4ED.CURE (877.433.2873) or visit: www.LCMH.org, www.edcure.org and www.diabetes.org.
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1. Drs. Jing Fang and Michael H. Alderman, Impact of the Increasing Burden of Diabetes on Acute Myocardial Infarction in New York City. Diabetes Journal, 55:768-773, 2006.
