The genetics of a “femaleness/maleness” score in cardiometabolic traits in the UK biobank

DE Vosberg, Z Pausova, T Paus - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We recently devised continuous “sex-scores” that sum up multiple quantitative traits,
weighted by their respective sex-difference effect sizes, as an approach to estimating …

Endogenous testosterone and its relationship to preclinical and clinical measures of cardiovascular disease in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study

R Srinath, S Hill Golden, KA Carson… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Context: Epidemiologic studies suggest that endogenous testosterone (T) levels in males
may be implicated in cardiovascular disease (CVD), however further clarification is needed …

Testosterone deficiency as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease

MI Ullah, T Washington, M Kazi… - Hormone and …, 2011 - thieme-connect.com
Testosterone deficiency (TD) has become a frequently diagnosed condition in our current
society with an obesity epidemic. Men diagnosed with TD often have co-morbidities …

Is a previously or currently reduced testosterone level in male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus a risk factor for the development of coronary artery disease? A …

F Huang - Diabetes Therapy, 2018 - Springer
Introduction We aimed to systematically investigate the association between testosterone
level and cardiovascular risk in male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by …

Testosterone supplementation improves insulin responsiveness in HFD fed male T2DM mice and potentiates insulin signaling in the skeletal muscle and C2C12 …

M Pal, J Khan, R Kumar, A Surolia, S Gupta - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is characterised by hyperglycemia due to the
incidence of insulin resistance. Testosterone supplementation has been shown to have a …

Quantitative trait loci predicting circulating sex steroid hormones in men from the NCI-Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3)

J Ahn, FR Schumacher, SI Berndt… - Human molecular …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Twin studies suggest a heritable component to circulating sex steroid hormones and sex
hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). In the NCI-Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort …

[HTML][HTML] Low testosterone and clinical outcomes in Chinese men with type 2 diabetes mellitus–Hong Kong Diabetes Registry

KKT Cheung, ESH Lau, WY So, RCW Ma… - diabetes research and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Aims To assess the implications of low testosterone on cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic
syndrome (MES) and clinical outcomes in Chinese men with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) …

Testosterone concentration and insulin sensitivity in young men with type 1 and type 2 diabetes

MM Kelsey, P Bjornstad, K McFann… - Pediatric …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Reduced testosterone, a recognized comorbidity of reduced insulin sensitivity (IS)
and type 2 diabetes (T2D), has also been reported in adult males with type 1 diabetes (T1D) …

Testosterone: bad for men, good for women?

EE Van Der Wall - Netherlands Heart Journal, 2011 - Springer
Generally, high testosterone levels within the physiological range are associated with a
more favourable cardiometabolic profile. Although the FDA has approved testosterone for …

A genome-wide association meta-analysis of circulating sex hormone–binding globulin reveals multiple loci implicated in sex steroid hormone regulation

AD Coviello, R Haring, M Wellons, D Vaidya… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is a glycoprotein responsible for the transport and
biologic availability of sex steroid hormones, primarily testosterone and estradiol. SHBG has …