Risks versus benefits of testosterone therapy in elderly men

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-142

  Basaria, Shehzad ^a   Dobs, Adrian S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN THERAPY; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGED; AGING; ANDROGENS; HUMANS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0032870080     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199915020-00006     Document Type: Review

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