BACKGROUND Testosterone may be an important factor causing depression in the elderly men. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between testosterone levels and depressive symptoms in older men in Amirkola, Iran. METHODS This cross- sectional study is a part of the Amirkola Health and Aging Project (AHAP) that involves people aged 60 and above living in Amirkola, a small ...

We question whether Adele Goldberg fulfills her self-declared goal in ‘‘Constructions at Work’’, i.e. to develop a usage-based theory that ‘‘can produce an open-ended number of novel utterances based on a finite amount of input’’. We point out converging trends in computational linguistics that suggest formalizations of Construction Grammar. In particular, we go into recent developments in Data...

The gender difference in cardiovascular disease has been partly attributed to higher androgenic hormone levels. Although testosterone in women may not affect lipids, it remains unknown whether it negates favorable estrogenic effects on endothelial function. We have investigated the effects of testosterone implant therapy on arterial reactivity encompassing endothelial-dependent and -independent...

Androgen levels are lower in obese men as compared with normal weight individuals. However, there are no safety data regarding the chronic use of androgen supplements in middle-aged men. The present study was undertaken to determine the cardiovascular and metabolic effects of chronic (10 weeks) testosterone treatment in male obese Zucker rats, starting at 22 weeks of age, when testosterone leve...

objective: to evaluate the relationship between serum level of testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin in men with type 2 diabetes. materials and methods: in this case-control study, forty men aged 40-70 with type 2 diabetes mellitus were randomly selected and compared with 40 non-diabetic men. the two groups were matched for their age and bmi. after complete observation and examination, ...

Several inequalities are presented which, in part, generalize inequalities by Weinstein and Weiss, giving rise to new lower bounds for the Bayes risk under squared error loss. Consider a Bayesian setting in which y denotes the observed data and θ denotes an unknown scalar parameter. Suppose that E [ (θ − E(θ|y)) |y ] and E [ (θ − E(θ|y)) ] exist. For any estimator δ(y) of θ, E [ (θ − δ(y))|y ] ...

Facial cooling (FC) increases cerebral blood flow (CBF) at rest and during exercise; however, the mechanism of this response remains unclear. The purpose of the present study was to test our hypothesis that FC causes facial vasoconstriction that diverts skin blood flow (SkBF(face)) toward the middle cerebral artery (MCA V(mean)) at rest and to a greater extent during exercise. Nine healthy youn...

Androgen levels are lower in obese men as compared with normal weight individuals. However, there are no safety data regarding the chronic use of androgen supplements in middle-aged men. The present study was undertaken to determine the cardiovascular and metabolic effects of chronic (10 weeks) testosterone treatment in male obese Zucker rats, starting at 22 weeks of age, when testosterone leve...

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Giorgio Cavigiolio, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609-1673; Tel. +1 (510) 4283885 x4452; Fax. +1 (510) 450-7920; e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected], or Sean Davidson, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 2120 East Galbraith Road, Cincinn...