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Men with low testosterone may be more likely to develop osteoporosis, a condition where bones become brittle and break easily. This is why people with low testosterone may notice their muscles becoming smaller or weaker, even if they continue to exercise. Testosterone is important for many systems in the body.
Testosterone deficient patients should be informed that low testosterone levels place them at risk for these major cardiovascular events and clinicians should assess all testosterone deficient patients for ASCVD risk factors, both fixed (e.g., older age, male gender) and modifiable (e.g., dyslipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, current cigarette smoking). Finally, men with elevated Hct and on-treatment low/normal total and free testosterone levels should be referred to a hematologist for further evaluation and possible coordination of phlebotomy. If SHBG levels are low/free testosterone levels are high, dose adjustment of the testosterone therapy should be considered. Men with total testosterone levels of 171 In patients who have low total testosterone and low or low/normal LH levels (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism), serum prolactin should be measured to screen for hyperprolactinemia (Appendix C).168, 169 If a patient has elevated prolactin levels, prolactin measurement should be repeated to ensure that the initial elevation was not spurious. Testosterone deficient patients with low or low/normal LH levels can be considered candidates for SERM use as a treatment for testosterone deficiency, particularly those wishing to preserve their fertility.170 However, an LH level below which SERM response is optimized is not firmly established.
Testosterone therapy in women has a much narrower evidence-based indication, with the strongest support in postmenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (Davis et al., Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2019; Parish et al., Climacteric, 2021). The AUA guideline is often cited because it uses a total testosterone below 300 ng/dL as a reasonable diagnostic cutoff for testosterone deficiency. For women, the goal is to avoid supraphysiologic exposure and maintain levels within the normal female range if therapy is used at all (Travison et al., Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2017; Davis et al., Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2019). There’s growing interest in testosterone’s benefits for women with low levels.
We do a lot of this in urology, but women's sexual health has also been historically ignored. People who are on birth control pills, people who are breastfeeding, people who are on hormone therapies in breast cancers, perimenopause and menopause can increase your risk of UTIs drastically. You deserve to be treated, cared for, informed, and empowered through every change in your body, because when women truly understand how their bodies work, they make exceptional decisions for their own health.
It is believed that as many as one-third of older men have unexplained anemia,77 and data from observational studies indicate that there is a significant association between low testosterone levels and reduced hemoglobin (Hb) levels. The European Male Aging Study (EMAS)8 studied 3,369 men (mean age 59 years) and culled data on their sexual, physical, and psychological symptoms along with morning total testosterone measurements. Despite the methodological limitations, individual studies have shown a link between low testosterone levels and ED. Likewise, while some literature suggests that food ingestion might affect testosterone levels, the evidence is particularly weak, and the Panel does not recommend that clinicians insist on fasting prior to testing. Among men with traditional (10p.m. to 6a.m.) sleep patterns, peak testosterone values occur around 3-8a.m., with 32-39% of the diurnal total decline occurring within the first 30 minutes of waking.18-23 Older men experience diurnal blunting and more stability in testosterone levels throughout the day, while younger men undergo greater variation.

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