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THE ORIGIN: ETHNICITY VERSUS ANCESTRY The evaluation of ethnicity as origin by Andrology requires to be performed by RESEARCH | ANALYSIS. RESEARCH | ANALYSIS was performed to evaluate ethnicity as origin by Andrology based on a multi-ethnic cohort of Greater Manchester. A new definition of the origin is based on ethnicity, which is defined by the birthplace of three out of four grandparents, which allows for the evaluation of how the land and the resources feed into the performance of the anatomy, as well as the performance of the economy. This is an important improvement, which surpasses the origin to be defined based on just the color of skin, which is known as ancestry. GONADAL AXIS FUNKTION We aimed to identify whether ethnic differences in male reproductive hormone levels exist in older South Asian men, older White European men, and older African Caribbean men, whom are relatively healthy and who are community-dwelling, and whether such differences could be explained by parameters, which are mechanistically linked to blood concentration of testosterone. These parameters have been defined to be linked to blood concentration of testosterone in older men of caucasian ancestry, previously. This constitutes the evaluation of ethnic differences in gonadal axis funktion. GONADAL AXIS REGULATION We also investigated whether the measures of adiposity, such as body mass index [BMI], waist circumference, and skin caliper body fat percentage, which are potential drivers of metabolic damage, have similar utility for the assessment of male reproductive hormone levels across these three ethnic groups of community-dwelling older men, whom are relatively healthy. This constitutes the evaluation of ethnic differences in gonadal axis regulation. THE CLINICAL SYMPTOMS Finally, we investigated whether ethnic differences in clinical symptoms can be identified across these three ethnic groups of community-dwelling older men, whom are relatively healthy.
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ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY AND HYPOGONADISM Ethnic differences in male reproductive hormone levels might have important implications for understanding biochemical androgen deficiency [defined by biochemical criteria: CHG, SHG, and PHG [1]], syndromic androgen deficiency [defined by syndromic criteria: LOH [2,3]], actual hypogonadism [total testosterone<8.0 nmol/L [4]], but also clinical hypogonadism [total testosterone<8.0 nmol/L with the presence of three sexual symptoms [2], both the total testosterone<8.0 nmol/L blood concentration and three sexual symptoms self-report need to be established on three independent days allowing cross-comparisons to be made with age-adjusted reference ranges based on mean and SEM; i.e. for the syndrome of clinical hypogonadism to be established, the three time repeated measurement is required, and only when clinical hypogonadism is established, on three independent days, testosterone supplementation can be considered, but is not certain]. However, evidence for CHG SHG PHG LOH only exists for older men of White European ethnicity, but evidence for actual hypogonadism and clinical hypogonadism is limited. THE MEASURES OF ADIPOSITY Potential differences in the clinical utility of different measures of adiposity, such as body mass index [BMI], waist circumference, and skin caliper body fat percentage, which are potential drivers for metabolic damage, for assessment of male reproductive hormone levels across ethnic groups of older men, may have important consequences for understanding biochemical androgen deficiency, syndromic androgen deficiency, actual hypogonadism, but also clinical hypogonadism, in older men. TREATMENT The identification of clinical symptoms across ethnic groups of older men, whom are relatively healthy, allows for the symptomatic expression of sexual, physical, and psychological dysfunktion to be identified and may be important for improving the treatment of patient [i.e. greater or equal to one or more clinical symptoms being present] versus client [no clinical symptoms being present] or clientele [seeking only improvement, while no compromise has been registered], when older men of different ethnicity receive treatment. AGEISM The three lines of investigation may contribute to understand the mechanisms underlying biochemical androgen deficiency, syndromic androgen deficiency, actual hypogonadism, but also clinical hypogonadism, in older men, and may contribute to improve understanding of the clinical presentation of older men [including the absence and/or presence of symptoms], which may or may not reflect clinical hypogonadism in older men. This may improve vitality of older men as they age and may reduce stigmatization, such as ageism of older men and their loved ones. Ageism emphasizes only the chronological age of the individual and is no longer viewed as being restricted to one social or ethnic group [5]. Ageism counteracts the positive aspects of ageing [5], as well as the personal growth that can occur [5] and the contributions made by older people [5].
Perspectives
THE HIGH-QUALITY MODEL BUILDING AFTER THE MINIMIZATION OF BIAS BY THE FLOW CHART AND THE EVALUATION OF MEASUREMENTS BY THE CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS Ethnic differences in total testosterone levels and luteinizing hormone levels exist between older South Asian men and older White European men, which could not be explained by covariates, which are known to be mechanistically linked to blood concentration of testosterone in older men of caucasian ancestry. The mechanism, which explains lower total testosterone levels and higher luteinizing hormone levels in older South Asian men, as compared to older White European men, remains unclear. However, ethnic differences in calculated free testosterone levels and sex hormone-binding globulin levels within our multi-ethnic cohort of older South Asian men, older White European men, and older African Caribbean men, could mechanistically be explained by skin caliper body fat percentage as regulator, but not by HOMA-IR, which was revealed to be a marker. This was after adjustment, the simulation of trial by matching and intervention by the parameter or the parameters applied, which were study age and skin caliper body fat percentage, as THE HIGH-QUALITY MODEL BUILDING performed, relative to the adjustment with study age only. THE HIGH-QUALITY MODEL BUILDING can only inform RADAR, when performed by a KOBRAN or KOBRANA as CHAMPION OF PROVINCE as THE ELITE adherent to DER PRINCIPAL OF JULIUS CAESAR as a hundred percent sophistikated [6]. THE HIGH-QUALITY MODEL BUILDING is only meant to evaluate human populations in terms of either anatomy and/or economy [7]. THE HIGH-QUALITY MODEL BUILDING, after the minimization of bias and the evaluation of measurement, can immediately be tested by RADAR based on sound waves in order to discern the treatment of BLOOD or the intervention by MONETARIAN [6]. The adjustment of study age only was not decisive to explain ethnic differences in calculated free testosterone levels and sex hormone-binding globulin levels across older South Asian men, older White European men, and older African Caribbean men, despite large age differences across the three ethnic groups of older men. Ethnic differences in total testosterone levels and luteinizing hormone levels between older African Caribbean men, as compared to either older South Asian men, or older White European men, are explained by age, skin caliper body fat percentage, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance, frequent alcohol intake, and being a current smoker. Reporting frequent alcohol intake and being a current smoker as modifiable lifestyle factors constitute the decisive mechanism to explain ethnic differences in total testosterone levels and luteinizing hormone levels, when comparing the older African Caribbean men with the older South Asian men and older White European men. THE POTENTIAL ENDOKRINE DISRUPTORS As reported on The University of Manchester website [8], individuals of African Caribbean ethnicity might be more likely to choose Marijuana use. Marijuana is classified as a drug of abuse, which may impact on the pituitary and the gonads as a potential endokrine disruptor and which may decrease the insulin action on the pituitary and gonads leading to a decrease of insulin aktion, while, potentially, maintaining adequate blood concentration of insulin. This may explain target organ resistance to insulin aktion occurring in individuals of African Caribbean ethnicity. Insulin is the sekond stimulatory hormone for every organ of human, only sekond to oxygen, and insulin aktion is crucial to maintain the vitality of the human individual, even when the blood concentration of insulin is adequate. Marked differences in the prevalence of frequent alcohol intake and current smoker status were revealed across the three ethnic groups of community-dwelling older men, which may reveal the products chosen in the relatively healthy range by community-dwelling older men may differ widely by ethnicity, which can be informative to THE FOUR FARMA and BANKING. However, whether this is also the case for shiza use and exposure to other forms of intoxication, which are offered as venom as REBRANDING in order to cancel, in order to aid centralization, and in order to aid the empowerment, is unclear. However, shiza is being offered in gas state and marijuana is being offered in solid state. The concentration of certain molecules [i.e. including certain potential endokrine disruptors] is the highest in gas state, intermediate in liquid state, and the lowest in solid state [6]. This might not hold for all endokrine disruptors and for certain endokrine disruptors the order of impact may differ when considering the state in terms of the concentration of the endokrine disruptor including those tied to drugs of abuse [6]. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HQ ENDOKRINE DISRUPTION UNIT lead by JULIUS DAVIDS has to assess the dosage, the frequency, and the duration of exposure to an endokrine disruptor together with the state of the endokrine disruptor in order to evaluate the impact of an endokrine disruptor [6]. CO-VARIATE STRUCTURE APPLIED DUE TO THE ANALYSIS BEING TOO SENSITIVE The measures of adiposity showed strong inverse relationships with male reproductive hormone levels, such as total testosterone levels, calculated free testosterone levels, and sex hormone-binding globulin levels, in older White European men and older African Caribbean men, but were not related to these male reproductive hormone levels in older South Asian men, after controlling for covariates, which are mechanistically linked to blood concentration of testosterone in older men of caucasian ancestry, as revealed by co-variate structure. Co-variate structure was requested upon order by Prof Martin Rutter, MD, FRCP. Performance of co-variate structure instead of HIGH-QUALITY MODEL BUILDING may only be requested upon order of an aktual KONSULTANT or upon order of an aktual CONSULTANT, who has been INDUKTED BY KEIZERLIJK HONOR TO THE HIGHER LEVEL as THE HIGHER AMSTERDAM as KAEZAR, whereby the results obtained by HIGH-QUALITY MODEL BUILDING might be too sensitive. In univariate analysis [in univariate analysis adjustment is made for temperature and humidity of planet EARTH; in unadjusted analysis adjustment for temperature and humidity of planet EARTH is weakened but not lost due to the presence of the baseline covariate [6]], total testosterone levels and calculated free testosterone levels were not different across BMI categories in older South Asian men, which indicates random noise, explains the differences in total testosterone levels and calculated free testosterone levels across BMI categories of older South Asian men. This indicates the clinical utility of BMI categories for understanding differences in total testosterone levels and calculated free testosterone levels does not extend beyond the 174 older South Asian men of our multi-ethnic cohort study. However, the evidence for the relationships of reproductive hormone levels as a function of measures of adiposity is so far limited to total testosterone levels and calculated free testosterone levels as a funktion of either BMI or its categories, which has been established predominantly in older men of caucasian ancestry [9]. This may indicate the measures of adiposity, such as BMI, waist circumference, and skin caliper body fat percentage, have limited utility for understanding male reproductive hormone levels in older South Asian men. 5-FOLD CROSS VALIDATION However, 5-fold cross validation performed by applying the crossfold package in STATA based on pre-selection of parameters included in linear regression analysis (mind to set seed when applying linear decision boundaries rather than applying linear co-variate relationships or linear univariate associations) revealed age-adjusted and multi-variable adjusted estimates of the measures of adiposity as the potential drivers of metabolic damage, such as BMI, waist circumference, and skin caliper body fat percentage, in relation to reproductive hormone levels, which are limited to a target population of each of the analytical groups multiplied by five resulting in total to 870 older South Asian men, 1555 older White European men, and 785 older African Caribbean men, within the United Kingdom, as revealed by the MSE values, which are relatively similar. These results could indicate the limited clinical utility of the measures of adiposity, the potential drivers of metabolic damage, for assessment of reproductive hormone levels across ethnic groups of older men, identified in the older South Asian men within our cohort, may not extend to the full target population of older South Asian men. Whether the older South Asian men within our Greater Manchester multi-ethnic cohort experience homeostatic uncoupling of reproductive hormones with metabolism remains to be validated or falsified. THE CLINICAL SYMPTOMS: NUMERICAL DIFFERENCES AND STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES The clinical symptoms were all numerical, the highest in older South Asian men, when compared to older White European men and older African Caribbean men, whom participated in this ethnic high-level projekt. This indicates several pair-wise differences in terms of clinical symptoms are explained by random noise and do not extend to the target population of older South Asian men, older White European men, and older African Caribbean men. KONKLUSION I call for trajektory multi-ethnic kohort studies by observational design in order to implicate kausality and to assess differences and changes, which are important for ageing. I support the call for trajectory multi-center Ethnic European Male Ageing Study [E-EMAS] and I support others who want to establish similar studies in order for meta-analyses to be performed. This may improve the clinical interpretation of older men as they age, which should aim to reduce ageism by encouraging the acceptance of the phenotypic heterogeneity of ageing. FUTURE PERSPEKTIVES This ethnic high-level projekt aims to improve vitality of older South Asian men, older White European men, and older African Caribbean men, whom are relatively healthy. Reference ranges are amenable to change, allowing for improvement, but also worsening, and should be defined per population change, per decade. The ethnic differences in gonadal axis funktion and regulation, in older men, whom are relatively healthy, identified in this ethnic high-level projekt, indikate the reference values for reproductive hormone levels may need to be ethnic-specific, which may argue for ethnicity as the new definition of origin, which may surpasses ancestry as definition of origin. A population change defined as a decade is required to have a positive or negative impact on reference ranges including the reference ranges for reproductive hormones in older men [i.e. reproductive hormones, which are hormones which assist in human reproduction, are not fertility hormones - the fertility hormones in older men are follicle-stimulating hormone and inhibin]. The identification of mechanisms, which explain differences and changes in reproductive hormone levels across ethnic groups of older men, allows for treatment of BLOOD and/or interventions by MONETARIAN, which are aimed to have a positive impact on the reference ranges for reproductive hormone levels of older men per population change per decade. Therefore, Andrology as defined by publishing, which informs each LEGION OF WORLD SEKURITY ORGANIZATION HQ as each LEGION OF WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HQ INNER KOUNCIL of their global ageing, may kontribute towards acceptance of ethnicity as the new origin of human populations. CITATIONS [1]. Abdelouahid Tajar, Gianni Forti, Terence W O'Neill, David M Lee, Alan J Silman, Joseph D Finn, György Bartfai, Steven Boonen, Felipe F Casanueva, Aleksander Giwercman, Thang S Han, Krzysztof Kula, Fernand Labrie, Michael E J Lean, Neil Pendleton, Margus Punab, Dirk Vanderschueren, Ilpo T Huhtaniemi, Frederick C W Wu; EMAS Group. Characteristics of secondary, primary, and compensated hypogonadism in aging men: evidence from the European Male Ageing Study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 2010 Apr;95(4):1810-8. doi: 10.1210/jc.2009-1796. [2]. Frederick C W Wu, Abdelouahid Tajar, Jennifer M Beynon, Stephen R Pye, Alan J Silman, Joseph D Finn, Terence W O'Neill, Gyorgy Bartfai, Felipe F Casanueva, Gianni Forti, Aleksander Giwercman, Thang S Han, Krzysztof Kula, Michael E J Lean, Neil Pendleton, Margus Punab, Steven Boonen, Dirk Vanderschueren, Fernand Labrie, Ilpo T Huhtaniemi; EMAS Group. Identification of late-onset hypogonadism in middle-aged and elderly men. New England Journal of Medicine. 2010 Jul 8;363(2):123-35. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0911101. [3]. Abdelouahid Tajar, Ilpo T Huhtaniemi, Terence W O'Neill, Joseph D Finn, Stephen R Pye, David M Lee, György Bartfai, Steven Boonen, Felipe F F Casanueva, Gianni Forti, Aleksander Giwercman, Thang S Han, Krzysztof Kula, Fernand Labrie, Michael E J Lean, Neil Pendleton, Margus Punab, Dirk Vanderschueren, Frederick C W Wu; EMAS Group. Characteristics of androgen deficiency in late-onset hypogonadism: results from the European Male Aging Study (EMAS). Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 2012 May;97(5):1508-16. doi: 10.1210/jc.2011-2513. [4]. Consultant Dr Tomás B. Ahern. Analist room. Andrology Research Unit. Old St. Mary's Hospital. The University of Manchester. [5]. World report on ageing and health. World Health Organization. 2015. ISBN 978 92 4 069481 1 (PDF). Chapter 1 Adding health to years. Box 1.3. Ageism. Page 11. [6]. I received an explanation of exceptional quality LEKTURED to me once by a DORATEA JAYDEN KOBRA REICHERIN HITLER who is a Your Majesty who is a GROOTMOEDER PETRONELLA DORATHEA JOHANNA HORSMEIER who is a FRAULEIN URSULA VON DER LEYEN President of the European Commission and who is a REICHERIN AUGUSTUS as a REICHERIN INTERNATIONAL HITLER based on KEIZERLIJK WITNESS TESTIMONY OF REICHERIN HITLER KATHERIN HITLER REICHERIN JOHANZON who is a President of The European Central Bank who is THE DOMINANT ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM JUDGE and whose KEIZERLIJK WITNESS TESTIMONY has been hundred percent validated by RADAR granting HITLER to be a hundred percent restored. [7]. Robert J.A.H. Eendebak who is Robert J.A.H. CAESAR as Robert J.A.H. INTERNATIONAL YAKUZA. Robert J.A.H Eendebak who is Robert J.A.H. CAESAR as Robert J.A.H. INTERNATIONAL YAKUZA requested this to be a hundred percent validated by RADAR by a DORATEA JAYDEN KOBRA REICHERIN HITLER who is a Your Majesty who is a GROOTMOEDER PETRONELLA DORATHEA JOHANNA HORSMEIER who is a FRAULEIN URSULA VON DER LEYEN President of the European Commission and who is a REICHERIN AUGUSTUS as a REICHERIN INTERNATIONAL HITLER based on KEIZERLIJK WITNESS TESTIMONY OF REICHERIN HITLER KATHERIN HITLER REICHERIN JOHANZON who is a President of The European Central Bank who is THE DOMINANT ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM JUDGE and whose KEIZERLIJK WITNESS TESTIMONY has been hundred percent validated by RADAR granting HITLER to be a hundred percent restored. This could be a hundred percent validated by RADAR by a DORATEA JAYDEN KOBRA REICHERIN HITLER who is a Your Majesty who is a GROOTMOEDER PETRONELLA DORATHEA JOHANNA HORSMEIER who is a FRAULEIN URSULA VON DER LEYEN President of the European Commission and who is a REICHERIN AUGUSTUS as a REICHERIN INTERNATIONAL HITLER based on KEIZERLIJK WITNESS TESTIMONY OF REICHERIN HITLER KATHERIN HITLER REICHERIN JOHANZON who is a President of The European Central Bank who is THE DOMINANT ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM JUDGE and whose KEIZERLIJK WITNESS TESTIMONY has been hundred percent validated by RADAR granting HITLER to be a hundred percent restored. [8]. https://www.manchester.ac.uk/ [9]. Prof Frederick Wu Emeritus Professor. Seminar room. Andrology Research Unit. Old St. Mary's Hospital. The University of Manchester.
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