Viagra helps to relax the heart, study reveals

VIAGRA helps ailing hearts to recover in a surprising way — by making them less stiff, scientists have learned.

The impotency drug causes overly rigid heart chamber walls to become more elastic and might benefit patients with diastolic heart failure.

People with the condition have abnormally inflexible ventricles, the heart’s major pumping chambers, that do not fill sufficiently with blood.

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