Testosterone replacement for male military personnel - A potential countermeasure to reduce injury and improve performance under extreme conditions.

Nicolas H Hart, Robert U Newton

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Article in EBioMedicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it

0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

Disuse-Induced Muscle Atrophy and Muscle Weakness From Hospitalization to Spaceflight: Exercise Succeeds in Prevention and Treatment-A Meta-Analysis.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2026
Pooled it
Testosterone and neurobehavioral outcomes in special operations forces military with multiple mild traumatic brain injury.NeuroRehabilitation · 2024
Article
Characterising lower-body musculoskeletal morphology and whole-body composition of elite female and male Australian Football players.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Effects of testosterone supplementation on body composition and lower-body muscle function during severe exercise- and diet-induced energy deficit: A proof-of-concept, single centre, randomised, double-blind, controlled trial.2019

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicolas H HartExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia; School of Medical and Health Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia; Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame Australia, Perth, WA, Australia; Western Australian Bone Research Collaboration, Perth, WA, Australia. Electronic address: n.hart@ecu.edu.au.

Robert U NewtonExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia; School of Medical and Health Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia; School of Exercise and Nutrition Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Edith Cowan University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Military PersonnelTestosteroneBody CompositionDietDietary SupplementsDouble-Blind MethodHumansMaleTestosteroneBoneEndocrineEnduranceFunctionMuscleResilienceStrength

Identifiers

PMID31405757

DOI10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.08.015

PMCPMC6796586

OpenAlexW2969137069

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