{"id":10664,"date":"2019-01-05T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prostate.net\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2019-01-05T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:42:47","slug":"testosterone-heart-disease-risk-men-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/red64.com\/testosterone-heart-disease-risk-men-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Does High Testosterone Cause Heart Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"
A combination of high testosterone and low estrogen in men may explain why males have more heart disease than premenopausal women. A new study shows that these sex hormones in men have an impact on cardiovascular risk factors that in turn increase a man\u2019s risk of heart disease.<\/p>\n
Prior to this new study, which was presented at the Endocrine Society\u2019s 97th<\/sup> annual meeting in San Diego on March 7, 2015, experts had investigated a link between testosterone and heart disease. The 2014 study, which appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em>, evaluated data from 8,700 older men (average age, early 60s) who had low T levels.<\/p>\n The researchers found that men who were placed on\u00a0testosterone replacement therapy<\/a> had a 30 percent higher risk of stroke, heart attack, or death over a three-year period than did men who did not take testosterone.<\/p>\n According to the Harvard team, it was possible the hormone prompted the formation of blood clots, which placed the men at risk of these cardiovascular events.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In the new study, which was headed by Elaine Yu, MD, MSc, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, 400 healthy men (ages 20-50) were evaluated. Here\u2019s how the research was conducted:<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what the investigators found:<\/p>\n Yu commented that their observations \u201cmay help explain why men have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more in our\u00a0Low T\u00a0Health Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n Men’s heart disease risk linked to high testosterone and low estrogen. Endocrine Society press release<\/a> 2015 Mar 7<\/p>\n Morgentaler A et al. Deaths and cardiovascular events in men receiving testosterone. JAMA<\/em><\/a> 2014 Mar 5; 311(9): 961-62<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A combination of high testosterone and low estrogen in men may explain why males have more heart disease than premenopausal women. A new study shows … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/red64.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}New study of testosterone and heart disease<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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