Testosterone 'could prevent heart and diabetes deaths'

Testosterone 'could prevent heart and diabetes deaths'

Boosting men's testosterone levels could potentially reduce deaths from heart disease and type 2 diabetes, UK doctors and scientists say.

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Prof Ashley Grossman, an endocrinologist at the University of Oxford, said: "We used to think that testosterone was one of the 'bad guys' and accounted for the adverse metabolic phenotype of men compared to women, and their tendency to more heart disease.
"Now the field is turned upside down as testosterone is seen to have majorly positive effects.
"However, there is a commercial push for older men to have testosterone replacement therapy, and there is some scepticism among clinicians that this is more financially rather than clinically driven.
"Nevertheless, these data do suggest that very low levels of testosterone in ageing males might not be good."
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