Testosterone and type 2 diabetes prevention: translational lessons from the T4DM study

GA Wittert, M Grossmann, BB Yeap… - Journal of …, 2023 - joe.bioscientifica.com
Testosterone acting via the androgen receptor, and via aromatisation to oestradiol, an
activator of the oestrogen receptor, plays key roles in adipose tissue, bone, and skeletal …

SNPs associated with testosterone levels influence human facial morphology

J Roosenboom, K Indencleef, MK Lee… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Many factors influence human facial morphology, including genetics, age, nutrition,
biomechanical forces, and endocrine factors. Moreover, facial features clearly differ between …

Endogenous testosterone and cardiovascular disease in healthy men: a meta-analysis

JB Ruige, AM Mahmoud, D De Bacquer, JM Kaufman - Heart, 2011 - heart.bmj.com
Context The literature provides no clear answer as to whether low endogenous testosterone
increases risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in healthy men. Objective Our purpose was …

Endogenous testosterone levels and cardiovascular risk: meta-analysis of observational studies

G Corona, G Rastrelli, G Di Pasquale… - The journal of sexual …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Introduction The relationship between endogenous testosterone (T) levels and
cardiovascular (CV) risk in men is conflicting. Aim To verify whether endogenous T levels …

Low total testosterone is associated with increased risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus in men: results from the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP)

S Schipf, R Haring, N Friedrich, M Nauck, K Lau… - The Aging …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. There is increasing evidence suggesting that low total testosterone concentration
is associated with incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in men. The aim of this study was …

Endogenous testosterone levels are associated with risk of type 2 diabetes in women without established comorbidity

JJ Rasmussen, C Selmer, S Frøssing… - Journal of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Purpose The impact of endogenous androgen levels on the risk of type 2 diabetes in women
remains uncertain. The objective was to investigate associations between endogenous …

Higher testosterone and testosterone/estradiol ratio in men are associated with decreased Pheno-/GrimAge and DNA-methylation based PAI1

CDJ Kusters, KC Paul, AT Lu, L Ferruci, BR Ritz… - GeroScience, 2024 - Springer
Sex hormones are hypothesized to drive sex-specific health disparities. Here, we study the
association between sex steroid hormones and DNA methylation-based (DNAm) biomarkers …

Maternal Testosterone and Offspring Birth Weight: A Mendelian Randomization Study

BK Zheng, XY Sun, J Xian, PP Niu - The Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Context Evidence has shown maternal androgen levels in both the general population and
populations with hyperandrogenic disorders are inversely associated with offspring birth …

Genetically predicted testosterone and cancers risk in men: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

J Chang, Y Wu, S Zhou, Y Tian, Y Wang, J Tian… - Journal of Translational …, 2022 - Springer
Objective In observational studies, testosterone has been reported to be associated with
some types of cancers. However, the direction and magnitude of the causal association …

Testosterone, aging and survival: biomarker or deficiency

MM Shores, AM Matsumoto - Current Opinion in Endocrinology …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Low testosterone is associated with mortality in multiple cohort studies; however, it is unclear
if this is a causal association or due to low testosterone being a biomarker of poor health …