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Jun 18, 2010
Male menopause not a myth
Researchers pinpoint nine symptoms for determining presence of condition
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WASHINGTON - FOR the first time, researchers have identified the symptoms linked to 'male menopause', which results from low testosterone production in ageing men.
Unlike female menopause - which affects all women, usually from the age of 40 onwards - male menopause affects only 2 per cent of elderly men and is often linked to poor general health and obesity.
Of nine symptoms associated with the condition, the three most important are decreased frequency of morning erection, decreased frequency of sexual thoughts (or sex drive) and erectile dysfunction, according to the latest research by the University of Manchester, Imperial College London, University College London and other European partners.
These symptoms together with low testosterone levels are required to establish a diagnosis of late-onset hypogonadism, or male menopause, the researchers said in a study published in yesterday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The findings should provide new guidance for physicians prescribing male testosterone therapy to ageing men with a dwindling sex drive, the researchers said.
Use of testosterone therapy has increased by 400 per cent in the United States since 1999, but not at all in other developed nations, they added. -- AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
Male menopause not a myth
Researchers pinpoint nine symptoms for determining presence of condition
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WASHINGTON - FOR the first time, researchers have identified the symptoms linked to 'male menopause', which results from low testosterone production in ageing men.
Unlike female menopause - which affects all women, usually from the age of 40 onwards - male menopause affects only 2 per cent of elderly men and is often linked to poor general health and obesity.
Of nine symptoms associated with the condition, the three most important are decreased frequency of morning erection, decreased frequency of sexual thoughts (or sex drive) and erectile dysfunction, according to the latest research by the University of Manchester, Imperial College London, University College London and other European partners.
These symptoms together with low testosterone levels are required to establish a diagnosis of late-onset hypogonadism, or male menopause, the researchers said in a study published in yesterday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The findings should provide new guidance for physicians prescribing male testosterone therapy to ageing men with a dwindling sex drive, the researchers said.
Use of testosterone therapy has increased by 400 per cent in the United States since 1999, but not at all in other developed nations, they added. -- AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
