Erectile Dysfunction Statistics

Clinical trials state that ED is everything but a rare condition. Impotence is met by more than 15% of all men around the world. In America only the figures reach 30 million. The National Ambulatory Medical Care (NAMC) developed a study revealing that 22 of every 1000 men in the United States reported ED symptomatology in 1999. Specialists suspect also that patients might have been influenced not to declare their condition so far because of prejudice. Moreover, the increasing number of men with ED in the last decade may also result from the aging of the "baby-boomer generation" turns 50 years old.

Surveys based on patients' age reveal that 5% of men in their 40s and nearly 20% of men by 65 years of age experience chronic and complete erectile dysfunction. Transient forms of impotence are met by 50% of men with ages between 40 and 70.
Medical studies considering the causes of ED prove that smokers have a 50% higher risk level of impotence than non-smokers at the same age. Nonetheless, 50% of men suffering from diabetes experience erectile dysfunction within 10 years of diagnosis.
Specialists' previews for the next years are not very optimistic, either. Some urologists claim that the number of ED patients will double in the near future as a consequence of the psychological manipulation used in the publicity for new ED drugs. Once he is aware of the possibility of becoming impotent, the subject becomes an easy target. Besides, more and more men who are presently embarrassed of acknowledging erectile dysfunction, will, sooner or later, seek for medical help.