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Testosterone Offers Women Benefits, Risks
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Cappola believes that women who have high testosterone levels have had them throughout their lives. "But we can't tell whether testosterone is a marker or actually causing the cardiovascular disease," she said. "Insulin resistance may be a part of this, but it doesn't explain everything," she added.
There is nothing to do about this right now, Cappola said. "We don't have good ways, in postmenopausal women, of lowering testosterone levels anyway," she said.
One expert agreed that the findings don't have any implications for treatment right now.
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"This study shows the complexity of hormones in the aging population," said Dr. Robert Vigersky, from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. "However, trying to change testosterone levels in older women is something that is not supported by any of this data," he said.
Vigersky noted that risk of heart disease was seen with both high and low testosterone levels. "What this means diagnostically and interventionally is not clear," he said. "There isn't anything that anyone can take from this from a treatment standpoint," he added.
More information
For more on women and testosterone, head to the Jean Hailes Foundation (www.jeanhailes.org.au ).
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Last updated 6/27/2006
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SOURCES: Karen Miller, M.D., endocrinologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Anne R. Cappola, M.D. Sc.M., assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D., chairman, department of medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; Robert Vigersky, M.D., Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; June 26, 2006, presentations, Endocrine Society's 88th annual meeting, Boston
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