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Endogenous Testosterone and Mortality Due to All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer in Men: European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer in Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk) Prospective Population Study
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Background— The relation between endogenous testosterone concentrations and health in men is controversial. Methods and Results— We examined the prospective relationship between endogenous testosterone concentrations and mortality due to all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer in a nested case-control study based on 11 606 men aged 40 to 79 years surveyed in 1993 to 1997 and followed up to 2003. Among those without prevalent cancer or cardiovascular disease, 825 men who subsequently died were compared with a control group of 1489 men still alive, matched for age and date of baseline visit. Endogenous testosterone concentrations at baseline were inversely related to mortality due to all causes (825 deaths), cardiovascular disease (369 deaths), and cancer (304 deaths). Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for mortality for increasing quartiles of endogenous testosterone compared with the lowest quartile were 0.75 (0.55 to 1.00), 0.62 (0.45 to 0.84), and 0.59 (0.42 to 0.85), respectively ( P <0.001 for trend after adjustment for age, date of visit, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, blood cholesterol, cigarette smoking, diabetes mellitus, alcohol intake, physical activity, social class, education, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, androstanediol glucuronide, and sex hormone binding globulin). An increase of 6 nmol/L serum testosterone (≈1 SD) was associated with a 0.81 (95% confidence interval 0.71 to 0.92, P <0.01) multivariable-adjusted odds ratio for mortality. Inverse relationships were also observed for deaths due to cardiovascular causes and cancer and after the exclusion of deaths that occurred in the first 2 years. Conclusions— In men, endogenous testosterone concentrations are inversely related to mortality due to cardiovascular disease and all causes. Low testosterone may be a predictive marker for those at high risk of cardiovascular disease.
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- Authors
- Khaw, K.-T., Dowsett, M., Folkerd, E., Bingham, S., Wareham, N., Luben, R., Welch, A., & Day, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Venue
- Circulation
- Published
- 2007-12-04
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 2694-2701
- ISSN
- 0009-7322 (ISSN-L)
- 1524-4539
- OpenAlex
- W2136449685
- Cited by
- 743
- References
- 51
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- FWCI
- 40.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Circulation (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Hormonal and reproductive studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Sperm and Testicular Function
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Keywords
- endogenous testosterone, all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, cancer mortality, men, androgen deficiency, sex hormones, cardiovascular risk prediction, sex hormone-binding globulin, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, androstanediol glucuronide
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Cardiovascular Diseases, Europe, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Testosterone
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