Doctors shouldn't shy away from asking patients about their sex lives, because problems in the bedroom can translate into serious medical conditions, researchers say.

Did you know that ignoring sexual erectile dysfunction may mean missing early indicators for heart failure, depression or other ailments? Well, according to the research done, this is very much true.

Lead author Dr. Rosemary Basson of the British Columbia Centre for Sexual Medicine in Vancouver said that sex is a legitimate part of medicine, but that it has been kept separate from the rest of the medicine, it could be possible with Viagra OR Levitra. In fact, we all know that our sexual lives affect our health. If you're not happy with your sex life, your health automatically decreases leading to such things such as depression.

Basson and her co-author Dr. Willibrord Weijmar Schultz of the University Medical Centre in Groningen, the Netherlands, examined numerous medical databases. They look for sexual dysfunctions in combination with diseases such as heart failure, diabetes, depression, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's.

Guess what they found?! They found out that many sexual problems were identified as possible red flags, because they caused different diseases.

Thus, as a result of this research, doctors are being advised to ask their patients about their sexual lives. It might be a private, personal thing that people have hard times talking about, but the patients should let their doctors know, making it easier to keep them healthy and far away from depression and other diseases. Some questions would include with whom they had sex, how frequently and if they engage in potentially risky behavior.

In fact, people are not going to volunteer and tell their doctor about this, unless they are asked and/or confronted by these questions.

Doctors are also noting that sexual dysfunction may mean something more serious.

For instance, men with erectile dysfunction, the most common sexual disorder in older men, are often at increased risk of heart disease.

There was a study conducted with 132 men who has a heart surgery. Nearly half had a history of erectile dysfunction.

But, what about women? In women, picking up on sex clues is more difficult, because women do not have as obvious physical symptom as men.

However, a woman's lack of sexual desire reveals an underlying depression in up to 26% of cases. Sexual abnormalities in women could point to hormone conditions, kidney failure, diabetes or other chronic diseases.

Therefore, by looking at sexual problems of their patients, doctors will be able to prevent some of the diseases that could potentially be costly later on in life.

I think this is a good idea, even if people are not comfortable talking about their sexual problems. If you want help, you have to tell someone and let them know that you need help. In that way, you will help yourself and help prevent the development of diseases or heart attack. We know that today heart attacks are as common in men as in women. So why put yourself at risk?

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