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Large Study Shows Viagra May Double Men’s Risk for Hearing Problems
“A new US study suggests men who take Pfizer’s Viagra (sildenafil) or similar drugs for erectile dysfunction may double their chances of hearing impairment, bolstering a Food and Drug Administration warning from 2007 about this side effect.”
…”Among those who took the drugs, however, almost one in three had hearing loss, Gerald McGwin, an epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, told Reuters Health.
“Even after accounting for other factors linked to hearing loss, hard-of-hearing men still had twice the odds of taking Viagra, said McGwin, whose findings appear in the Archives of Otolaryngology, Head-Neck Surgery.”
Source: Reuters, May 19, 2010
Citation:Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2010;136(5):488-492.
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