Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study
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Re: Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study
#2Or these men simply lead more active lives with regular exercise. Hard to tell.
Re: Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study
#3Or these men simply lead more active lives with regular exercise. Hard to tell.
Wouldn't taking these kind of factors into account be quite basic part of the analysis?
Of course, they cannot take everything into account.
Re: Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study
#4The study is called "Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors in Men With
Erectile Dysfunction and the Risk of Alzheimer Disease" and published in "Neurology", for reference. It's open access, link: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209131
Re: Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study
#5Or these men simply lead more active lives with regular exercise. Hard to tell.
Wouldn't taking these kind of factors into account be quite basic part of the analysis? Of course, they cannot take everything into account.
Well, unless you lead a non-active life and hope to improve your health by taking viagra without the accompanying extra in activity.
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#6Please let's make a downvote free thread for throwing jokes a round on this topic. We need this freedom for such a topic trending on HN.
There is so much low hanging fruit and we're all thinking of several I suspect. My initial thought was in the lane of 'drug is affecting one more head than intended', but it's missing some refinement I'll admit
Re: Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study
#7Please let's make a downvote free thread for throwing jokes a round on this topic. We need this freedom for such a topic trending on HN. There is so much low hanging fruit and we're all thinking of several I suspect. My initial thought was in the lane of 'drug is affecting one more head than intended', but it's missing some refinement I'll admit
I nominate this specific comment thread for this purpose.
Re: Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study
#8Please let's make a downvote free thread for throwing jokes a round on this topic. We need this freedom for such a topic trending on HN. There is so much low hanging fruit and we're all thinking of several I suspect. My initial thought was in the lane of 'drug is affecting one more head than intended', but it's missing some refinement I'll admit
No, let's not. We don't "need this freedom". And we're not "all thinking of several". Grow up.
Re: Men on Viagra may reduce their Alzheimer's risk – study
#9Or these men simply lead more active lives with regular exercise. Hard to tell.
I was thinking along similar lines: sildenafil (the active compound in viagra) was originally researched as a hypertension medication. The link between hypertension and dementia is well-established, and hypertension is also extremely common and relatively underdiagnosed.
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#10It's all the cardio, bro. Mystery solved. Next!