The benefits and risks of testosterone replacement therapy: a review
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...It is interesting to note that some studies, particularly in the elderly, show that it is possible to stimulate an increase in muscle mass without necessarily demonstrating an increase in strength or physical activity.(50) Hand grip strength has been shown in a large population study of >140 000...
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...Thus, testosterone administration has been shown to stimulate the production of red blood cells in males, especially elderly males, and it is associated with the increment of hemoglobin that occurs during puberty in young men [80, 81]....
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...These results among men in this age group may have important public health implications because declined T levels in aging men can have adverse effects on muscle strength, energy, bone mass, leanness, intellectual capacity, and libido, and may be associated with increased risk of osteoporosis, obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and erectile dysfunction (2, 37)....
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...level below 65 pg/mL can provide supportive evidence for testosterone treatment.(53,54) The gold standard for bioavailable...
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...No relationship between testosterone level and depressive symptoms was found in the Massachusetts Male Aging Study (MMAS).(14) This discrepancy in the results of the effects of testosterone replacement therapy on mood may be explained by the genetic polymorphism in the androgen receptor which defines a vulnerable group in whom depression is expressed when testosterone levels fall below a particular threshold....
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...with increasing age with a steeper decline in bioavailable and free compared with total testosterone concentrations.(4,14,15) In...
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