Amorous encounters might not be the only thing Viagra extends.
That is according to scientists, anyway.
Sildenafil, the powerful chemical that gives men erections, may have a ‘beneficial effect on lifespan’, French and 시알리스세일구매 Swiss researchers say.
Men prescribed the impotency drug were found to be 15 per cent less likely to die during the course of the study which examined 40 years of data.
The apparent life-extending effects were so clear that the team claimed the results ‘warrant further investigation’.
Millions of British men now take drugs to help impotency. The latest NHS backed data shows 22million such prescriptions for these drugs were handed out by GPs in England between 2019 and 시알리스세일구매 2023 to the cost of £91million (stock image)
Medical records of around 500,000 Brits were analysed in the study, which has yet to be peer-reviewed — the process that irons out any flaws in the methodology.
Armed with that data, experts at biotech start-up EPITERNA could see any potential health outcomes linked to certain medications.
Most of the 400-plus drugs they assessed, which included the antibiotic amoxicillin and 시알리스 효과 the cholesterol medication simvastatin, had a ‘negative’ effect on lifespan.
The researchers, 시알리스 구매 사이트 working alongside experts from the universities of Zurich, Lausanne and Toulouse Hospital, said this was ‘probably due to the underlying negative effect of the disease the drug is intended for’.