{"id":3109,"date":"2021-12-23T12:32:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/vaping-and-impotence-what-s-the-connection-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:32:47","slug":"vaping-and-impotence-what-s-the-connection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/vaping-and-impotence-what-s-the-connection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaping and Impotence \u2013 What\u2019s the Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/smoking-cessation\/features\/vape-debate-electronic-cigarettes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vaping<\/a><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-3107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/VapeSmoking.jpg\" alt=\"VapeSmoking\" width=\"350\" height=\"219\" style=\"margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 40px; float: right;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/VapeSmoking.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/VapeSmoking-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>&nbsp;can be tough on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/lung\/picture-of-the-lungs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lungs<\/a>, but new research warns of another possible danger to men: It may more than double the risk for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/erectile-dysfunction\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">erectile dysfunction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After tracking erectile dysfunction (ED) risk among nearly 25,000 men aged 20 and older, investigators found that even vapers with no history of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/heart-disease\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heart disease<\/a>&nbsp;or other health issues typically associated with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/erectile-dysfunction\/understanding-erectile-dysfunction-basics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impotence<\/a>&nbsp;saw their risk shoot up more than twofold.<\/p>\n<p>The finding suggests that while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/smoking-cessation\/how-e-cigarettes-affect-body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electronic cigarettes<\/a>&nbsp;may offer some users a helpful pathway towards kicking a cigarette habit, there are potential downsides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/smoking-cessation\/ss\/slideshow-tips-quit-smoking\">tobacco<\/a>&nbsp;or nicotine product is not risk-free, especially for those who are thinking of starting to use it,&#8221; cautioned lead study author Dr. Omar El Shahawy. He&#8217;s an assistant professor at New York University&#8217;s Grossman School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>For example, &#8220;there is abundant evidence that consistent exposure to high nicotine levels [in traditional tobacco products] can impair normal erectile function,&#8221; El Shahawy noted. &#8220;[And] some e-cigarettes have very high nicotine concentrations, especially when using newer generation e-cigarettes that have high nicotine delivery. This made us examine the possible relationship between using e-cigarettes and erectile dysfunction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/erectile-dysfunction\/news\/20211201\/for-men-vaping-may-be-a-downer-in-the-bedroom?ecd=wnl_spr_120621&amp;ctr=wnl-spr-120621_promotwo_link_2&amp;mb=ey%2F15hw9IBd8PPtxici3JnZzEfzmzUWp51pM3CV70UE%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">For complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaping&nbsp;can be tough on the&nbsp;lungs, but new research warns of another possible danger to men: It may more than double the risk for&nbsp;erectile dysfunction. After tracking erectile dysfunction (ED) risk among nearly 25,000 men aged 20 and older, investigators found that even vapers with no history of&nbsp;heart disease&nbsp;or other health issues typically associated with&nbsp;impotence&nbsp;saw their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parent-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}