Bayer Schering Pharma Starts New Campaign ‘Restore the Man’

Erectile Dysfunction often comes along with Underlying Conditions / Bayer Schering Pharma is working with healthcare professionals to promotemen’s health
Milan/Berlin, March 2008 – Bayer Schering Pharma unveiled its new ‘Restore the Man’ campaign at the 23rd Annual European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress in Milan, Italy, demonstrating its commitment to providing innovative and holistic solutions that promote men’s health. ‘Restore the Man’ is about taking an integrated view of men’s health, shifting to a proactive preventive focus, and providing innovative and new therapeutic approaches to enable the successful treatment of men with a range of health problems.

“For too long, men have been blamed for not taking care of their health; but health services need to respond to men’s needs and consider a man’s overall health, not just individual conditions”, said Proffessor Ian Banks, President of the European Men’s Health Forum, about the ‘Restore the Man’ campaign. “Men’s health is more than ever in the focus of the public discussion. But it needs an even more proactive approach to discuss the men specific health issues, for example at consultations for erectile dysfunction as an opportunity to explore other health problems. Where treatment is necessary, health care professionals must offer dynamic solutions that enable men of all ages to maximize their quality of life”, concluded Prof Banks.

‘Restore the Man’ encourages healthcare providers, and men together with their partners, to recognize that erectile dysfunction (ED) and testosterone deficiency syndrome share common underlying conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, abdominal obesity and hypertension.(1)

Nearly 70% of men with ED have some kind of underlying condition (2). Healthcare providers should treat erectile dysfunction and check the testosterone level at the same time. It is very important to bring the testosterone level to a normal level; testosterone therapy can make this possible.

Urologists can provide an immediate solution for ED with PDE-5 inhibitors, such as Levitra®. With Nebido® and Testogel®, men’s healthcare professionals are enabled to successfully treat patients with testosterone deficiency syndrome (hypogonadism). Bayer Schering Pharma is the only company to provide such a full range of short- and long-term evidence-based treatment solutions for men with ED and testosterone deficiency.
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1 Makhsida N, Shah J, Yan G, Fisch H, Shabsigh R.Hypogonadism and metabolic syndrome:
implications for testosterone therapy. J Urol. 2005;174(3):827-34

2 Feldman H, Goldstein I, Hatzichristou D. Impotence and its medical and psychological correlates:
results of the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. J Urol. 1994; 151:54–61