A Population-Level Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels in American Men
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A population-level decline in serum testosterone levels in American men.
CONTEXT Age-specific estimates of mean testosterone (T) concentrations appear to vary by year of observation and by birth cohort, and estimates of longitudinal declines in T typically outstrip cross-sectional decreases. These observations motivate a hypothesis of a population-level decrease in T over calendar time, independent of chronological aging. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to es...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0021-972X,1945-7197
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2006-1375