ArticleJournal of internal medicine2019
Predictive value of low testosterone concentrations regarding coronary heart disease and mortality in men and women - evidence from the FINRISK97 study.
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- Endogenous Sex Steroid Hormones, Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin, and Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Pooled it
- Testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin in dysglycemic women at high cardiovascular risk: A report from the Outcome Reduction with an Initial Glargine Intervention trial.Diabetes & vascular disease researchTrial
- Serum testosterone and cardiometabolic risk in Nigerian men with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Association between Low Serum Testosterone Levels and All-cause Mortality in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: A Study Based on the NHANES Database.Cardiovascular toxicology · 2025Article
- Personality Traits Predict Self-Rated Health (SRH) in Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Patients and Healthy Controls.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Testosterone replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease.International journal of impotence research · 2022Review
- Low testosterone concentrations and prediction of future heart failure in men and in women: evidence from the large FINRISK97 study.ESC heart failure · 2021Article
- Prevalence of Low Testosterone According to Health Behavior in Older Adults Men.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Predictive value of low testosterone concentrations regarding coronary heart disease and mortality in men and women - evidence from the FINRISK97 study.Journal of internal medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionThe relevance of low testosterone concentrations for incident coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality has been discussed in various studies. Here, we evaluate the predictive value of low baseline testosterone levels in a large population-based cohort.
methodsWe measured the serum levels of testosterone in 7671 subjects (3710 male, 3961 female) of the population-based FINRISK97 study.
resultsThe median follow-up (FU) was 13.8 years. During the FU, a total of 779 deaths from any cause, and 395 incident CHD events were recorded. The age-adjusted baseline testosterone levels were similar in subjects suffering incident events during FU and those without incident events during FU (men: 15.80 vs. 17.01 nmol L
conclusionsLow levels of testosterone are not predictive regarding future CHD or mortality - neither in men, nor in women.
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