There’s been news lately that Viagra may protect against heart disease.
If heart disease runs in my family, and I’m already taking cholesterol-lowering medicine to protect my heart, could I get a prescription for Viagra even if I don’t have erectile dysfunction?
Sildenafil citrate, the drug we know as Viagra, was first tested as a treatment for high blood pressure and angina (chest pain caused by too little blood flow to the heart). But its ability to restore men’s potency vastly eclipsed its potential as a heart medicine. It’s been on the market for 17 years now, and is so widely used, there’s been re-newed interest in it’s heart-health benefits.
Viagra and similar erectile-dysfunction (ED) drugs Cialis and Levitra work by making constricted blood vessels relax... Read More