Do testosterone injections increase libido for elderly hypogonadal patients? Commentary

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 301-305

  Persons, Robert K ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACNE; ALOPECIA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; ELDERLY CARE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER TOXICITY; NOTE; OILY SKIN; POLYCYTHEMIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIDE EFFECT; VIRILIZATION; VOICE CHANGE; AGE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIBIDO; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LIBIDO; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247508096     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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