Is Viagra the secret to long life?

Scientists are assertive that Viagra can go beyond revitalizing sexual life. According to a study by French and Swiss researchers, Viagra, the well-known little blue pill, may contribute to a longer life, not just in the bedroom.
In a study examining 40 years of data , it was discovered that men prescribed “sildenafil”, the active ingredient in Viagra , had a 15 percent lower risk of death.

This discovery came after researchers in London discovered that Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 18 percent.

A study conducted by EPITERNA in the UK analyzed the medical records of more than 500,000 Britons from the UK Biobank study, examining the health consequences of more than 400 medications. The drugs studied included an antibiotic such as amoxicillin, a cholesterol medication such as simvastatin, and an opioid painkiller such as morphine. It turns out that many of these drugs have a “negative” effect on people’s lifespan .

While morphine was found to be associated with a 456 percent increase in the risk of death, the researchers stated that this was “probably due to the underlying adverse effect of the disease against which the drug is targeted.”

Sildenafil was found to have a “beneficial” effect on lifespan, but researchers said they did not know enough about why.

While the ages of the patients participating in the study ranged from 37 to 73, 54 percent of the patients receiving drug treatment were women.

Sildenafil is prescribed to both men and women to treat pulmonary hypertension (a condition that causes the heart to work harder than normal to pump blood to the lungs) as well as to combat erectile dysfunction.