Background After American occupation to Iraq, no day passed without terrorist attacks or explosion in Iraq. The impact of this events extends to interact with all fields of life. The present study was designed to investigate the basal levels of hormones that affect sexual life of men patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and control group. MaterialsAndMethods Eighty two males witne...

Lambert CP, Bopp MM, Johnson LE, Sullivan DH. Resistance Training and Testosterone Replacement Induced Changes in Body Composition, Free Testosterone, IGF-I, and IGFBP-3 in the Frail Elderly. JEPonline 2007;10(1):48-56. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of two resistance exercise intensities and testosterone replacement on changes in circulating hormone/growth factor ...

BACKGROUND Whole body and abdominal obesity are associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus and heart disease. The effects of testosterone therapy on whole body and visceral fat mass in HIV-infected men with abdominal obesity are unknown. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the effects of testosterone therapy on intraabdominal fat mass and whole body fat distributio...

INTRODUCTION Decreasing of testosterone level is an important part of a male elderly. MATERIAL AND METHODS To describe this phenomenon a PubMed and national databases were searched for 17β-dehydrotestosterone, common testosterone, free testosterone, 17β-estradiol, luteinizing hormone, partial androgen deficiency of aging men. RESULTS The reduction in intensity of the processes of tissue ren...

BACKGROUND Data from prior studies have yielded inconsistent results on the association of serum testosterone levels with the risk for cardiovascular disease. There are no clinical trial data on the effects of testosterone replacement therapy on plaque progression. OBJECTIVE We designed a study to investigate the effect of testosterone therapy on coronary artery plaque progression using seria...

Objective Late-onset hypogonadism, or androgen deficiency in the aging male, is a significant cause of morbidity in older men. Many men in the low normal or equivocal range for low testosterone level exhibit signs and symptoms of hypogonadism. Serum testosterone is an imperfect maker for hypogonadism as symptoms vary greatly within the low to low normal range in addition to variations among tes...

OBJECTIVE To provide the first multinational survey of temporal trends in testosterone prescribing, given that anecdotal evidence indicates that it is increasing in some countries, including Australia. DESIGN Sales data for all testosterone products were obtained for 41 countries for each year from 2000 to 2011. For each testosterone product type (injectable, implantable, oral, transdermal), ...

OBJECTIVE Some evidence suggests an inverse association between type 2 diabetes and androgens in men and a positive association between type 2 diabetes and androgens in women. The purpose of this community-based study was to evaluate sex differences in the association between endogenous total and bioavailable estrogen and testosterone levels and glucose tolerance status. RESEARCH DESIGN AND M...