Low testosterone is associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with erectile dysfunction

Although testosterone has been suggested to play a protective role against the development of atherosclerosis, many studies demonstrating an association between low Testosterone and incident major adverse cardiovascular events are scanty in the general population and absent in subjects with erectile dysfunction.

A study at University of Florence, Italy, aimed to investigate whether low testosterone in subjects with erectile dysfunction predict incident fatal or nonfatal major adverse cardiovascular events.

Researchers concluded that testosterone levels are associated with a higher mortality of major adverse cardiovascular events The identification of low testosterone levels should alert the clinician thus identifying subjects with an increased cardiovascular risk.