Total and free testosterone concentrations are strongly influenced by age and central obesity in men with type 1 and type 2 diabetes but correlate weakly with symptoms of androgen deficiency and diabetes-related quality of life

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 665-673

  Biswas, Mousumi ^a   Hampton, David ^a   Newcombe, Robert G ^b   Rees, D Aled ^b  

^a ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY IN THE AGING MALE QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; AUDIT OF DIABETES DEPENDENT QUALITY OF LIFE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PENILE ERECTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84859638581     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04196.x     Document Type: Article

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