[quote]October 3, 2011 (Gothenburg, Sweden) â?? A new Swedish study has shown that elderly men in the highest quartile of serum testosterone levels have around a 30% lower risk of cardiovascular events over five years compared with men in the lower three quartiles [1].
And the association remains even after adjustment for traditional cardiovascular risk factors and excluding those with CVD at baseline, say Dr Claes Ohlsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and colleagues in their paper in the October 11, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.[/quote]
[quote]However, what is established, she says, is that men with testosterone deficiency should receive testosterone supplementation. But there is currently a debate as to what level of testosterone represents a true deficiency, so this is a gray area, she notes.
And in older men, she adds, the issue is confounded by the fact that testosterone levels decline naturally with age: “So should we regard all elderly men as testosterone deficient? Or just look at subgroups?”[/quote]