Diseases and medicines that can cause erectile dysfunction
Diseases that often cause erectile dysfunction
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Heart diseases
- High cholesterol
- Depression
- Prostate surgery
- Other diseas es (kidney diseases, chronic alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, atherosclerosis).
Medicines that can cause or worsen erectile dysfunction:
- Cardiovascular medicines (for treating hypertension; digitalis preparations)
- Psychotropic medicines (antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics)
- Other medicines (e.g. antiepileptics)
