Low T, Diabetes and Death
The Daily Mirror recently published story titled, Diabetic men with low testosterone more likely to die. While I’m of the mind we’re all likely to die regardless of the levels of testosterone we have, eventually, I was curious enough about the headline to click the link in my newsreader and have a read.
In the end the title gave most of it away: Low T + Diabetes 2 = earlier death
The article goes on to say that hormone replacement therapy has been effective in prolonging the lives of men with the low T/diabetes combination.
A little bit of Googling turned up the original release from which I’ve clipped the following snippet:
Professor Hugh Jones, Consultant Endocrinologist and Hon. Professor of Andrology, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield, said:
“This is potentially a very exciting finding. Whilst we have shown that low testosterone levels can put diabetic men at greater risk of dying, we have also demonstrated for the first time the potential benefit that testosterone replacement therapy holds for this group of patients.
“It is well known that men with type 2 diabetes often have low testosterone levels, so it is important that we investigate the health implications of this. We now need to carry out a larger clinical trial to confirm these preliminary findings. If confirmed, then many deaths could be prevented every year.”
