“What Is Low T?” How do you treat patients with low T? What are the risk factors of TRT? This article tries to find answers to all these questions Androgens play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of male reproductive and sexual functions, body composition, bone health, and behaviour. Low levels of circulating androgens may cause reduced fertility, sexual dysfunction, decreased muscle formation and bone mineralisation, disturbances of fat metabolism, and cognitive dysfunction.
Male hypogonadism is a clinical syndrome caused by androgen deficiency which may adversely affect multiple organ functions and quality of life. Androgen deficiency increases slightly with age in healthy men In middle-aged men, hypogonadism varies from 2-14.8% while in men aged 40-80 the prevalence is 2.5-6.2%. Hypogonadism is more prevalent in older men, in men with obesity, those with…
