title: Late onset hypogonadism in type 2 diabetic and nondiabetic male: a comparative study.
abstract: Sexual dysfunction in diabetic men can result from a variety of causes of which late onset hypogonadism is now a recognised entity. The study described here was conducted to determine this entity by comparing diabetic men with age matched controls. A significant number of diabetic men had low levels of testosterone and free testosterone. Among the patients with low testosterone a large percentage had low pituitary gonadotrophic hormones signifying that the disorder was actually hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism. This finding was then correlated with various risk factors present in the diabetic patients and positive correlations were found for many parameters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Medical College, Kolkata 700073.
authors.forename: Asish Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Basu
authors.forename: Pankaj
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Singhania
authors.forename: Ramtanu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bandyopadhyay
authors.forename: Kalidas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Biswas
authors.forename: Sukamal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Santra
authors.forename: Sudhakar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Sekhar Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: Pradip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Raychaudhuri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D047649:Andropause; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007006:Hypogonadism / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D013739:Testosterone / Q000172:deficiency*
chemical_list: D013739:Testosterone