{"id":3424,"date":"2016-10-18T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessrx.com\/blog\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2011-10-18T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:32:09","slug":"viagra-not-just-for-erectile-dysfunction-high-blood-pressure-and-heart-health-l1018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/erectile-dysfunction\/viagra\/viagra-not-just-for-erectile-dysfunction-high-blood-pressure-and-heart-health-l1018\/","title":{"rendered":"Viagra: Not just for Erectile Dysfunction, Could Help Lower High Blood Pressure and Increase Heart Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The pharmaceutical companies have made sure just about everyone on the planet knows what Viagra is.\u00a0 The little blue pill that hit the market in 1998 has helped millions of men battle erectile dysfunction, which is the inability to get or keep an erection.\u00a0 Now, that popular pill may have other talents, which includes helping doctors detect heart troubles.<\/p>\n

Viagra\u2019s abilities in mice<\/strong>
\nScientists at Johns Hopkins are using mice to test their theory, but they believe Viagra may provide a protein that protects the heart from failure in patients that have high blood pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis greatly expands our understanding of how high blood pressure affects the heart and helps break down the disease equation into its molecular components for subsequent clinical testing,\u201d study lead investigator Eiki Takimoto, M.D., Ph.D.<\/p>\n

\"\"Takimoto says the protein in Viagra<\/a> acts as a protective shield for the heart.\u00a0 In their experiment, mice that had high blood pressure and were taking Viagra did see heart enlargement but not nearly as bad as the group of mice that weren\u2019t taking Viagra.\u00a0 About 90 percent of the mice that weren\u2019t taking Viagra suffered complications from their hearts expanding, and half of them died.\u00a0 Not one mouse died in the Viagra group, and just 30 percent had heart expansion.<\/p>\n

The future<\/strong>
\n\u201cViagra clearly offers a prolonged protective effect on mouse hearts,\u201d says study senior investigator and cardiologist David Kass, M.D.<\/p>\n

Heart experts will continue to investigate this new discovery.\u00a0 It comes on the heels of several studies that show Viagra\u2019s effectiveness in treating other heart related problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Funding for the reported study was provided by the National Institutes of Health, the Peter Belfer Laboratory Foundation, and the American Heart Association.\u00a0\u00a0 The team\u2019s findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pharmaceutical companies have made sure just about everyone on the planet knows what Viagra is.\u00a0 The little blue pill that hit the market in 1998 has helped millions of men battle erectile dysfunction, which is the inability to get or keep an erection.\u00a0 Now, that popular pill may have other talents, which includes helping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viagra"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t