Don’t worry, in absolute numbers the risk is 3,93 % compared to 3,16 % for non-users (5year). Just looking at the raw percent in the article make it seem like it gives you a 33% risk - hate articles like that.
Popular erectile dysfunction drug linked to eye disease that can cause irreversible vision loss
Submitted 1 day ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to science@mander.xyz
https://www.fox13news.com/news/erectile-dysfunction-drug-linked-eye-disease
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oyzmo@piefed.social 1 day ago iocase@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Same deal with cancer increases from different activities.
“Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!” When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Smoking is still a substantial increase though. Plus the fact that a minority of smokers get lung cancer, but 90% of people with lung cancer were smokers.
sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
“Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!” When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Eating 50g of cured meats every day raises the risk from about 5% to about 6% chance of getting certain gastrointestinal/colorectal cancers, compared to someone who never eats cured meats. A couple different ways to state this:
- 1% of cured meat eaters will develop cancer that they wouldn’t have otherwise developed, by eating cured meat.
- There is a 20% increase in risk of cancer from eating cured meat.
- Cured meat eaters who have cancer have approximately a 16% chance of having gotten the cancer from the meat they eat.
But it’s not negligible. And the causal connection is pretty strongly proven.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
cheat700000007@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fox!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
All ED meds do this. Not new information.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I seem to recall hearing that viagra will turn your vision blue. And then they released that series of ads for it with a blue tint, which struck me as an interesting choice.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 day ago tadalafil
DieterParker@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I remember Fight Club writer Chuck Palahniuk getting one of the characters in his 2008 novel Snuff go blind while waiting for his turn on the set of a gang bang production from eating viagra like smarties. Fun book, still waiting for the movie 🍿
misk@piefed.social 1 day ago
If this this drug had a female equivalent it wouldn’t be sold OTC because it’s dangerous to take it when you have high blood pressure. This study just piles up more evidence for it. I guess this is a rare instance where sexism inherent to medicine and pharmacology bites men in the butt.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Guess what, ED drugs (really BP drugs because they were developed as vasidilators tor blood pressure management) aren’t legally available without a prescription.
misk@piefed.social 1 day ago
I stand corrected, tadalafil is not OTC in many countries, only sildenafil is. Tadalafil is OTC where I live since 2022 and I assumed it’s the same elsewhere.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
aren’t legally available without a prescription.
sure, like oxycontin.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
No ED medication is over the counter in Canada.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
A boner and the women get hotter?
Sounds like a win win.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s almost like people need to learn how to accept that they’re going to get old and die.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Yeah, why even use vitamins or do resistance training, just accept the inevitable
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Crazy how you liken taking vitamins and exercise to taking a drug that makes your dick work.
Holy fuck
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
So, it actually DOES make you do blind!