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Re: Viagra for women?From: DoctorJoe (DoctorJoe@aol.com)Thu Apr 30 06:06:57 1998
In a message dated 4/29/98 10:36:24 PM, you wrote: <<Go to http://www.ishipress.com/viagra.htm for the full article. Comments?>> Well, scientifically speaking it sounds plausible.... Especially this part of the report: "At least one researcher, Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a professor of urology at the Boston University School of Medicine, said his research indicated that the problem for middle-aged women was the same as it was for middle-aged men: a paucity of blood flowing to the sex organs. And if Goldstein is correct, it makes at least theoretical sense that Viagra be helpful for women. It was Goldstein whose survey of Massachusetts men indicated that about half of all men aged 40 to 70 had difficulties obtaining or maintaining erections. He also discovered that the problem was most common among men with conditions that can lead to vascular problems that can lead to diminished flow in blood vessels, like diabetes. Now Goldstein and his colleagues are extending their research to women. To get an idea of how common sexual problems are in women, Goldstein surveyed 300 women whose partners had consulted him about impotency. Defining sexual dysfunction as discomfort during sexual intercourse, dryness, increased time for arousal, diminished ability to reach orgasm, or diminished clitoral sensation, Goldstein found that 58 percent of the women were affected. And, as like men, the women were more likely to have sexual difficulties if they were older and if they had medical conditions relating to vascular problems. Goldstein and Dr. Jennifer Berman, a urologist at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, also examined the blood vessels that supplied the clitorises of cadavers and those of women undergoing X-ray examinations of the arteries for vascular disease. They found that just as disease and aging cause blood vessels to narrow in other parts of the body, the sexual organs were similarly affected, Goldstein said. "The whole field changes now," he said. Sexual dysfunction, Goldstein said, is no longer mostly a psychosomatic complaint, it is not something to be resolved only through years of therapy, and it is not a problem for a urologist alone. Instead, he said, sexual dysfunction "is in essence a vascular disease." It is, he said, "a heart attack of the vagina, a heart attack of the clitoris, a heart attack of the penis." " Dr. Joe
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