Vitamin D treatment improves levels of sexual hormones, metabolic parameters and erectile function in middle-aged vitamin D deficient men

Aging Male

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 9-16

  Canguven, Onder ^a,d   Talib, Raidh A ^a,d   El Ansari, Walid ^b   Yassin, Dany Jan ^c   Al Naimi, Abdullah ^a  

^a Department of Urology ^*  (Qatar)

^b HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^c Institute of Urology and Andrology at Segeberger Kliniken   (Germany)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

25(OH)D; erectile function; HbA1c; metabolic syndrome; testosterone; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

ERGOCALCIFEROL; ESTRADIOL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TUMOR MARKER; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ESTRADIOL; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE ERECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TESTOSTERONE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 85009291654     PISSN: 13685538     EISSN: 14730790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13685538.2016.1271783     Document Type: Article

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