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How vascular diseases can affect an erection?

When the arteries that bring blood to the penis are sick, the blood that reaches the penis is insufficient to get an erection. In everyday life there are a number of factors that we call vascular risks, that favor the deterioration of the arteries.

The best known are high levels of cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, hypertension and injuries in the pelvic region. Which make the arteries become rigid and decline in size, generating a hardening of the arteries. Also on ageing persons, and therefore the ageing of tissues helps arteries lose elasticity.

Less often the main failure of the erection is the inability to store blood into the penis, as a result of a chronic failure filling, which does not allow the tissue of the penis to be properly oxygenated and eventually deteriorating the tissues of penis.