Establishing a Framework — Does Testosterone Supplementation Help Older Men?
| Autor: | Eric S. Orwoll |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Testosterone (patch) General Medicine Institute of medicine 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Clinical trial 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Physical therapy Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 374:682-683 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| Popis: | Aging is variably but inevitably accompanied by declines in health; concomitantly, in men, circulating sex-steroid levels fall with age.1 To what extent these two processes are causally linked and whether testosterone therapy can prevent or ameliorate important age-related problems have been major issues in men’s health. In 2003, a committee assembled by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) found a paucity of randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials involving older men and noted a lack of definite evidence that testosterone therapy conferred benefits.2 The committee recommended that clinical trials be initiated, first to evaluate the efficacy of testosterone supplementation in older men and . . . |
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