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Study Links Lifestyle and Male Impotence

Aired May 3, 2000 - 10:06 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Men, you might want to take note of this one: If you are a couch potato, you may pay a higher price than expected. A study on male impotence shows that your conduct in the dining room may affect your performance in the bedroom.

CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has that story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Drinking, exercise, body type -- all can affect whether or not a man will become impotent, according to a study of nearly 2,000 men. The men were most likely to become impotent if they had a large waist, didn't exercise very much, if they didn't drink at all, or if they drank too much.

Eric Rimm from the Harvard School of Public Health presented these findings at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association. He says there may be one condition behind all this: high cholesterol.

ERIC RIMM, HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Much like factors that lead to atherosclerosis, or factors that impede blood flow to the heart, we think that similar factors may impede blood flow to the genital area.

COHEN: No flow to the genital area means no erection. It's known that overweight people often have high cholesterol; so do people who are sedentary.

RIMM: I was somewhat surprised at the strength of the association, that individuals who exercised vigorously had such a substantial reduction in erectile dysfunction.

COHEN: And what about alcohol? Studies have shown that people who have one or two drinks a day have lower cholesterol and, therefore, better blood flow. Teetotalers and people who drink too much have worse blood flow. All of this points to new ways to look at the causes of impotence.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COHEN: Until now, not much has been known about lifestyle and impotence, so doctors hope this new study will empower men to make changes to improve their sex lives -- Bill.

KAGAN: Actually, it's Daryn.

COHEN: Daryn.

KAGAN: It's the girlfriends talking today, Elizabeth.

COHEN: Oh, OK.

KAGAN: And speaking of girls, the same urology conference that had that study come out, did they come out with any news for us girls?

COHEN: Yes, news for us girls -- there certainly was. There was a study a couple of days ago that showed that the anti-impotence drug Viagra actually seems to work in women who have sexual dysfunction. Now, what this points to is a theory that the causes of sexual dysfunction may be the same for men and for women. It's all about blood flow to the genitals, and it perhaps works the same for men and women. So perhaps these lifestyle factors, the eating, the exercise, the drinking, hold true also for women with sexual dysfunction, and that's something that doctors will be studying in the future.

KAGAN: All right, good to know. Look forward to hearing more.

Elizabeth Cohen, thank you.

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