Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

The side effect that changed the world #viagra #shorts #viral #youtubeshorts #ed #edtreatment

28 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video (shorts) by Anne Truong MD stating that Viagra, introduced in 1998, was originally developed to treat pulmonary hypertension but was found to cause erections as an unintended side effect, which led to its repurposing for erectile dysfunction.

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Pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs)

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It's been 25 years since Viagra came out in 1998. It was actually created to treat pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the lungs. And then they inadvertently found out, oh, one of the side effects of this medicine. Viagra gives particularly these men an erection, and therefore these men were loving the medication. So it's actually a side effect rather than it was mainly created for sexual dysfunction, such as ed.