Posted on 05/26/2021 11:45:28 PM PDT by blam
Low testosterone levels may increase men's risk of severe COVID-19, according to a new study.
On average, men fare worse with COVID-19 than women.
"During the pandemic, there has been a prevailing notion that testosterone is bad. But we found the opposite in men," said senior study author Dr. Abhinav Diwan. He's professor of medicine, cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
"If a man had low testosterone when he first came to the hospital, his risk of having severe COVID-19 — meaning his risk of requiring intensive care or dying — was much higher compared with men who had more circulating testosterone," Diwan said. "And if testosterone levels dropped further during hospitalization, the risk increased."
Diwan's team measured blood levels of several hormones in 143 men and women hospitalized with COVID-19. Samples were taken at days three, seven, 14 and 28, depending how long the patients were in the hospital.
Besides testosterone, the researchers measured levels of a hormone called estradiol and the growth hormone IGF-1, which is similar to insulin and plays a role in maintaining muscle mass.
Among women, there was no correlation between levels of any hormone and COVID-19 severity. Among men, only testosterone levels were linked to COVID-19 severity.
A blood testosterone level of 250 nanograms per deciliter (ng/dL) or less is considered low testosterone in adult men. At hospital admission, average testosterone levels were 53 ng/dL in men with severe COVID-19 and 151 ng/dL in men with less severe disease.
By day three, the average testosterone level of the sickest men was 19 ng/dL. The lower the testosterone levels, the more severe the disease, and patients with the lowest testosterone levels were most likely to go on a ventilator, need intensive care or die, the study .
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How are there any millennials still alive?
I suspect the problem is that low testosterone goes along with obesity, diabetes, hypertension, age, and a host of other comorbidities and health issues. Which issue is the true cause? Exercising and staying in shape helps minimize all of them except age. A lazy lifestyle is probably the largest COVID risk factor, but that’s not how western medicine works.
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Ironic twist on the fertility concerns
Democrats have tried turning the US males into a bunch of dickless, faggotty-assed pansies with no testosterone.
See the absolute explosion of the number of trannies, gays and pajama boys in the US.
Yes if there’s one thing America produces in droves these days it’s emasculated low-testosterone “men”.
Explains why my bout of the Chicom Cooties was so mild.
First they turn the frogs gay, then they kill you.
They haven’t left their mom’s basement.
I’m 74 and have been on the carnivore diet the last three years, after learning I was prediabetic.
I noticed “something was up” so I asked my doc to check my T at one point, it came in at 521, a good number for a guy half my age.
The diet also heals the lining of your arteries, where nitric oxide is produced...
Behold, the Schwing-O-Matic.
And why I never caught.
I guess that means Dem men are most at risk...
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My first thought was “did they control for age”? With only 143 men and women in the study I doubt they had enought men of various ages and testosterone levels to get a statistically meaningful number on age vs. testosterone vs. severity. If low testosterone was the causal factor instead of a cofactor caused by age, I would expect that COVID would have been far worse in all women.
As nature intended.
Yup. Dumbass ‘experts’ don’t know the difference between the holes in their skin.
My exact take on this article. The classic “correlation does not imply causation.” Men have low testosterone because they are unhealthy. People have poor Covid outcomes because they are unhealthy.
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