Low testosterone in men with cardiovascular disease or risk factors: to treat or not to treat?

DC Cassimatis, MT Crim, NK Wenger - Current treatment options in …, 2016 - Springer
… The key questions are thus (1) can we mitigate the negative effects of low testosterone with
… are the cardiovascular risks of treatment? Testosterone replacement and cardiovascular risk

Is low testosterone concentration a risk factor for metabolic syndrome in healthy middle-aged men?

…, K Takezawa, H Okuda, S Fukuhara, H Kiuchi, T Takao… - Urology, 2013 - Elsevier
… To clarify the probability of low serum testosterone level as a risk factormen, we measured
serum total testosterone (TT) and assessed several metabolic factors because the direct risk

Low testosterone in ageing men: a modifiable risk factor for frailty?

MDL O'Connell, R Ravindrarajah, A Tajar… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2011 - cell.com
… in the role of testosterone (T) in male ageing. Studies suggest that low T may be a risk factor
for frailty, … However, T deficiency is relatively rare in ageing men and, importantly, is linked to …

Low testosterone level as a predictor of cardiovascular events in Japanese men with coronary risk factors

M Akishita, M Hashimoto, Y Ohike, S Ogawa, K Iijima… - Atherosclerosis, 2010 - Elsevier
… a low testosterone level is an independent risk factor for CV disease even in middle-aged
Japanese men with coronary risk factors… For this purpose, we conducted a survey of 171 male

Testosterone treatment and mortality in men with low testosterone levels

MM Shores, NL Smith, CW Forsberg… - The Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… We examined treatment effect by diabetes because several studies have noted that low
testosterone is a risk factor for incident diabetes (26–28). We examined treatment effect by …

Metabolic syndrome in men with low testosterone levels: relationship with cardiovascular risk factors and comorbidities and with erectile dysfunction

E García‐Cruz, A Leibar‐Tamayo… - The journal of sexual …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… in men with testosterone deficiency. To this end, we analyzed the prevalence of MetS among
men aged 45 years or older with diagnosed testosterone … comorbidities and risk factors, …

Testosterone deficiency: a risk factor for cardiovascular disease?

TH Jones - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2010 - cell.com
Male gender is a major risk factor for premature cardiovascular death, a relationship not yet
explained. Low testosterone in men is a risk factor for … mortality in men with low testosterone. …

Are declining testosterone levels a major risk factor for ill-health in aging men?

BB Yeap - International journal of impotence research, 2009 - nature.com
… There are recognized risk factors for lower testosterone levels in aging men, which provide
a starting point for designing putative lifestyle-based interventions. Higher BMI and waist …

Low testosterone levels are associated with carotid atherosclerosis in men

J Svartberg, D Von Mühlen, E Mathiesen… - Journal of internal …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… the confounding effect of CVD risk factors, men with testosterone levels in the lowest …
testosterone levels and IMT of the carotid artery in men that was present also after excluding men

Predicting low testosterone in aging men: a systematic review

AC Millar, ANC Lau, G Tomlinson, A Kraguljac… - Cmaj, 2016 - Can Med Assoc
… individual signs and symptoms and their relation to low testosterone in aging men (Table 2).
We did … in older men are differentially linked to age and modifiable risk factors: the European …