ArticleDermato-endocrinology2012
Does vitamin D deficiency contribute to erectile dysfunction?
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- Is There an Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Erectile Dysfunction? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Quantitative Ultrasound Assessment of Skeletal Muscle Microvascularity in Relation to Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Association Between Vitamin D Levels and Erectile Dysfunction in Men: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- The relationship between vitamin D levels and erectile dysfunction: A mini-review.Clinical and experimental reproductive medicine · 2025Article
- Vitamin D in male sexual functions: unwrapping the sunshine hormone activities in erectile function and beyond.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Review
- Vitamin D and Platelets: A Menacing Duo in COVID-19 and Potential Relation to Bone Remodeling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Vitamin D and Male Erectile Function: An Updated Review.The world journal of men's health · 2021Review
- Mean Platelet Volume as a Marker of Vasculogenic Erectile Dysfunction and Future Cardiovascular Risk.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
- Serum vitamin D levels and type 2 diabetic erectile dysfunction: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Article
- A bone to pick with vitamin D deficiency and erectile dysfunction.International journal of impotence research · 2020Article
- Serum L-carnitine and vitamin D levels may be low among oral sildenafil citrate non-responders.International journal of impotence research · 2019Article
- Effects of Vitamin D Restricted Diet Administered during Perinatal and Postnatal Periods on the Penis of Wistar Rats.BioMed research international · 2018Article
- The role of vitamin D supplementation on erectile function.Turkish journal of urology · 2017Review
- Vitamin D deficiency is independently associated with greater prevalence of erectile dysfunction: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001-2004.Atherosclerosis · 2016Article
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- Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease: Have all risk factors the same strength?World journal of diabetes · 2014 · on this mapReview
- Mean platelet volume and vitamin D level.Annals of laboratory medicine · 2014Article
- Vitamin D: Its role in disease prevention.Dermato-endocrinology · 2012Article
- The Correlations of Clinical and Biochemical Indices of Vitamin D with Erectile Dysfunction.Journal of medicine and lifeArticle
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Abstract
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a multifactorial disease, and its causes can be neurogenic, psychogenic, hormonal and vascular. ED is often an important indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and a powerful early marker for asymptomatic CVD. Erection is a vascular event, and ED is often a vascular disease caused by endothelial damage and subsequent inhibition of vasodilation. We show here that risk factors associated with a higher CVD risk also associate with a higher ED risk. Such factors include diabetes mellitus, hypertension, arterial calcification and Inflammation in the vascular endothelium. Vitamin D deficiency is one of several dynamics that associates with increased CVD risk, but to our knowledge, it has not been studied as a possible contributor to ED. Here we examine research linking ED and CVD and discuss how vitamin D influences CVD and its classic risk factors-factors that also associate to increased ED risk. We also summarize research indicating that vitamin D associates with reduced risk of several nonvascular contributing factors for ED. We conclude that VDD contributes to ED. This hypothesis should be tested through observational and intervention studies.
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