Physicians and patients alike: always remember that ED is a harbringer of cardiovascular disease! ED and CVD share many of the same risk factors: DM, HTN, smoking, obesity... use the opportunity to take assessment of the patient as a whole.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41213436/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41213436/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Erectile Dysfunction as a Predictor of Subclinical Atherosclerosis: A Community Health Assessment... Erectile dysfunction severity tracked closely with coronary plaque burden, supporting its role as a sentinel clinical marker of subclinical atherosclerosis. Community-based sexual health screening... 
