Effects of Testosterone Treatment in Older Men.

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Published in N Engl J Med on February 18, 2016

Authors

Peter J Snyder1, Shalender Bhasin, Glenn R Cunningham, Alvin M Matsumoto, Alisa J Stephens-Shields, Jane A Cauley, Thomas M Gill, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Ronald S Swerdloff, Christina Wang, Kristine E Ensrud, Cora E Lewis, John T Farrar, David Cella, Raymond C Rosen, Marco Pahor, Jill P Crandall, Mark E Molitch, Denise Cifelli, Darlene Dougar, Laura Fluharty, Susan M Resnick, Thomas W Storer, Stephen Anton, Shehzad Basaria, Susan J Diem, Xiaoling Hou, Emile R Mohler, J Kellogg Parsons, Nanette K Wenger, Bret Zeldow, J Richard Landis, Susan S Ellenberg, Testosterone Trials Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: From the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism (P.J.S.), the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (A.J.S.-S., J.T.F., X.H., B.Z., J.R.L., S.S.E.), the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (D. Cifelli, D.D., L.F.), and the Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Section of Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine (E.R.M.), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Research Program in Men's Health: Aging and Metabolism, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (S. Bhasin, T.W.S., S. Basaria), and New England Research Institutes, Watertown (R.C.R.) - both in Massachusetts; the Departments of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Baylor College of Medicine and Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston (G.R.C.); Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound Health Care System, and the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine - both in Seattle (A.M.M.); the Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh (J.A.C.); the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (T.M.G.); the Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla (E.B.-C.), the Division of Endocrinology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (R.S.S., C.W.), and Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (R.S.S., C.W.), Torrance, and the Department of Urology, Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego (J.K.P.) - all in California; the Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota (K.E.E., S.J.D.), and Minneapolis VA Health Care System (K.E.E.) - both in Minneapolis; the D

Associated clinical trials:

The Testosterone Trial in Older Men | NCT00799617

Efficacy of Testosterone Gel to Restore Normal Serum Values of Testosterone During the Acute Phase of Critical Illness in Adult ICU Patients (TestICUs) | NCT03678233

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