The relationship between testosterone and mortality in men: A debatable issue

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-330

  Paparrigopoulos, Thomas ^a   Tzavellas, Elias ^b   Karaiskos, Dimitris ^b   Liappas, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; HUMAN; LETTER; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 39549101973     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.95     Document Type: Letter

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