What is it about?
This study focus on the long-term treatment effect with testosterone and it's direct on weight gain or lost due to Change of Hba1c Level. A permanent treatment with testosterone doesn't significantly have a positive benefit for men in weight lost or improvement of the glucose Levels. TRT itself is only an andequate therapy with a corresponding change in nutrional habits and physical activity.
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Why is it important?
Critical discussion on permanent TRT with minor effects on health outcome without recommanded change in diet and physical activity
Perspectives
Further longterm study with 200.000 individuals can be provided within the next years
Dr Ronny Westerman
NAKO Health Study at Federal Institute for Population Research
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This page is a summary of: Changing testosterone had no direct effect on HbA1c or weight in diabetic men when TRT was interrupted and then resumed, Clinical Endocrinology, April 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/cen.13061.
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