Low Testosterone Associated With Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome Contributes to Sexual Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Men With Type 2 Diabetes
- Christina Wang, MD1⇓,
- Graham Jackson, MD2,
- T. Hugh Jones, MD3,
- Alvin M. Matsumoto, MD4,
- Ajay Nehra, MD5,
- Michael A. Perelman, PHD6,
- Ronald S. Swerdloff, MD1,
- Abdul Traish, PHD7,
- Michael Zitzmann, MD8 and
- Glenn Cunningham, MD9
- 1Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Torrance, California
- 2London Bridge Hospital, London, U.K.
- 3Robert Hague Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Barnsley Hospital, and the Department of Metabolism, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, U.K.
- 4Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, V.A. Puget Sound Health Care System, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
- 5Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- 6Departments of Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine, and Urology, NY Weill Cornell College of Medicine, New York, New York
- 7Department of Urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- 8Clinical Andrology/Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University Clinics of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- 9Departments of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, St. Luke’s–Baylor Diabetes Program, Houston, Texas
- Corresponding author: Christina Wang, wang{at}labiomed.org.
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- Received December 14, 2010
- Accepted April 19, 2011
- Published in print June 27, 2011.
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Author Information
- Christina Wang, MD1⇓,
- Graham Jackson, MD2,
- T. Hugh Jones, MD3,
- Alvin M. Matsumoto, MD4,
- Ajay Nehra, MD5,
- Michael A. Perelman, PHD6,
- Ronald S. Swerdloff, MD1,
- Abdul Traish, PHD7,
- Michael Zitzmann, MD8 and
- Glenn Cunningham, MD9
- 1Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Torrance, California
- 2London Bridge Hospital, London, U.K.
- 3Robert Hague Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Barnsley Hospital, and the Department of Metabolism, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, U.K.
- 4Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, V.A. Puget Sound Health Care System, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
- 5Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- 6Departments of Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine, and Urology, NY Weill Cornell College of Medicine, New York, New York
- 7Department of Urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- 8Clinical Andrology/Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University Clinics of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- 9Departments of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, St. Luke’s–Baylor Diabetes Program, Houston, Texas
- Corresponding author: Christina Wang, wang{at}labiomed.org.
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