Cardiovascular disease is attacking people of every age now due to a decline in people’s health and activity but does it affects people’s sex life or libido? Well, Let’s find out.
Cardiovascular diseases affect the heart and cardiovascular system. They are the leading cause of death for both men and women.
What causes cardiovascular disease?
- Smoking (also secondhand smoke)
- Certain fats (high quantity)
- Cholesterol in the blood (high amount)
- High blood pressure
- Insulin resistance or diabetes (high level of sugar in the blood)
- Blood vessel inflammation
- The buildup of plaque (within coronary arteries can cause a rupture)
- Cold temperatures
Cardiovascular diseases include:
- Coronary artery disease (narrowing and hardening of the arteries)
- Heart attack
- Arrhythmias (heart is beating unevenly and out of rhythm)
- Heart failure (heart is not working properly)
- Heart valve disease (insufficient blood flow through your heart)
- Congenital heart disease (the heart of blood vessels defect, appears before birth)
- Heart muscle disease (disease of heart muscles)
- Pericardial disease (inflammation of heart surrounding, caused by infection)
- Aorta disease (dilate/dissect)
- Marfan syndrome (genetic condition-connected to aorta disease)
- Vascular disease (disease circulatory system)
Cardiovascular disease treatment
Treatment for cardiovascular diseases includes:
- Lifestyle changes (can help prevent or treat; quit smoking, follow a healthy diet, avoid sweet food and drinks, avoid solid fats and refined grains, avoid alcohol, physical activity, maintain a healthy weight, avoid stress and depression)
- Medicines (needed to treat, when lifestyle changes fail)
- Medical and surgical procedures
- Cardiac rehabilitation (supervised by clinical staff; exercise training and educational training)
Diseases are treated in order to:
- Relieve symptoms.
- Reduce risk factors (disables building of plaque)
- Lower the risk of blood clots (to prevent a heart attack.)
- Widen clogged heart arteries.
- Prevent CHD complications.
Even if you have a cardiovascular disease you can lead a healthy, active life just by getting to know some of the facts about the disease, threats, and treatment.
Vascular disease includes all malfunctions affecting the circulatory system, including artery diseases and blood flow into the brain.
The connection between cardiovascular disease and erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction, also named impotence is the inability to sustain an erection for sexual intercourse.
Conditions like premature ejaculation, infertility, and low sex drive are closely connected to erectile dysfunction.
What is needed to obtain an erection?
- Penis nerves must function properly
- Adequate blood circulation to the penis
- Stimulus from the brain
If only one condition isn´t fulfilled, complete erection won´t be possible.
Erectile dysfunction is caused by:
- Cardiovascular disease (affecting blood vessels)
- Diabetes (nerve and artery damage
- Kidney disease (lower sex drive)
- Nerve and brain disease
- Prostate cancer
- Venous leak (during an erection blood must circulate if not, erection can´t be maintained)
Cholesterol and erectile dysfunction are closely connected. Cholesterol is fat circulating in the blood. A higher level of cholesterol in the blood might lead to heart disease.
Additional cholesterol than needed for processes in the body gets deposited in blood vessels, feeding brain and heart. Deposited cholesterol combines with other elements and forms the plaque.
Plaque narrows the inside of vessel/artery and disables the uninterrupted flow of the blood to the heart muscle and to the penis. Penis erection might be compromised.
The link between erectile dysfunction and heart disease is very strong. According to several studies, a person with erectile dysfunction has over 50% bigger chance of having heart disease.
If you have erectile dysfunction, heart disease will probably occur within the next 5 years.
In conclusion, we have provided details on how cardiovascular diseases can negatively impact the libido levels of people. We hope the evidence-based content we provided can help you understand more about how both issues are related.
