[Erectile dysfunction, and risk factors of cardiovascular disease]

The paper is a review of the reports presenting the essential aspects of erectile dysfunctions being a serious challenge for the clinicians of various specializations because of increasing number of the diagnosed cases of sexual impairments caused by atherosclerotic background. The authors present the results of the most crucial studies concerning epidemiology of the said condition, an effect of the various demographic factors on its occurrence, with the focus laid on the significant correlation between classic risk factors of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and reasons leading to erectile dysfunctions. The work presents also the diagnostic and therapeutic obstacles, the physicians struggling with this more and more often disease, encounter in their every day practice.