Relationship between Heart Rate Recovery Index and Erectile Dysfunction

Deterioration of heart rate recovery index in patients with erectile dysfunction

OBJECTIVE Heart rate recovery (HHR) after exercise is a function of vagal reactivation. This study aimed to evaluate HHR index in patients with erectile dysfunction. METHODS Men over the age of 18 years who were diagnosed with erectile dysfunction were included in the study. Ninety patients with erectile dysfunction (mean age=56.1±8.3 years) and 50 healthy subjects as controls (mean age=53.1±...

Heart rate recovery, cardiac rehabilitation, and erectile dysfunction in males with ischemic heart disease

OBJECTIVE Heart rate recovery (HRR) is a recognised marker used in clinical practice for assessing the risk of sudden cardiac death. Physical exercise leads to an improvement in HRR and has a proven beneficial effect on erection quality (EQ) related to the activity of the autonomic nervous system in men with ischaemic heart disease (IHD). This paper evaluates the relationship between HRR and EQ...

Relationship between sleep disorders and erectile dysfunction, depression and quality of life in male patients with systolic heart failure

Background and Purpose: Identification of the effects of sleep disturbances on the quality of life could result in proper treatment of patients with heart failure. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep disorders and erectile dysfunction, depression and quality of life in male patients with systolic heart failure. Methods: This correlational study was conducted on 100...

Deterioration of Chronotropic Responses and Heart Rate Recovery Indices in Men With Erectile Dysfunction

INTRODUCTION Erectile dysfunction (ED) and cardiovascular (CV) diseases share common risk factors and ED has been accepted as an early manifestation of CV disease. Exercise stress testing (EST) is used to evaluate CV functions in men with ED. Low exercise workload, a slower heart rate recovery (HRR) after exercise, and inability to increase heart rate during EST (chronotropic incompetence) are ...

Erectile dysfunction and heart rate recovery. Is it autonomic nervous system?