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Taking Ozempic makes you three and a half times more likely to suffer life-wrecking erectile dysfunction, a new study suggests.

Researchers from the University of Texas studied more than 1,500 obese, non-diabetic men on the blockbuster drug and found a staggering number experienced sex problems within as little as a month after starting a prescription.

While other research and anecdotal accounts have noted erectile dysfunction as one of the many unpleasant side effects of the drug, this is the first study to assess the degree of risk.

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic are taken by more than two million people in the US, 비닉스 센트립 차이 including reality star Scott Disick, who was recently outed when eagle-eyed viewers of The Kardashians saw packets of similar shot, Mounjaro, in his fridge.

The researchers found that, not only did semaglutide users have a three and a half times increased risk of the sex problem, they were also almost twice as likely to develop testosterone deficiency

Researchers from the University of Texas found that obese, non-diabetic men were 3.5 times more likely to get a new diagnosis of erectile dysfunction within at least a month of starting semaglutide

Scott Disick is one male celebrity who has been taking a GLP-1 agonist medication to lose weight. Viewers noticed boxes of Mounjaro stocked inside of Scott Disick's fridge on a May episode of The Kardashians

The researchers used a large database of patient data to identify men without a diabetes diagnosis, aged 18-50, who had a BMI of more than 30 and were prescribed semaglutide — the generic drug in Ozempic and Wegovy — after June 2021.

Men with a prior erectile dysfunction diagnosis were excluded, as well as those taking Viagra and with a history of testosterone deficiency.

They also excluded men who had a prior diagnosis of diabetes, as the condition is a risk factor for erectile dysfunction.

Some 3,094 men matching the criteria were matched to an equal number of non-diabetic, obese men who never received a prescription of semaglutide.

The researchers found that, not only did semaglutide users have a three and a half times increased risk of the sex problem, they were also almost twice as likely to develop testosterone deficiency.

Semaglutide drugs work for weight loss by mimicking the hormone glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), which naturally occurs in the body and makes us feel full.

Erectile dysfunction most often happens when blood flow to the penis is limited. For a man to get erect, vessels carrying blood to his penis need to dilate. As a result, more blood flows into the penis and it swells.

The condition can also be linked to nerve damage from surgery; medication, including blood pressure pills and hormone suppressants used to treat prostate cancer; and alcohol.