Low testosterone a stroke risk
13th October 2014
By Hugo Wilcken
Low plasma testosterone (T) and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) are “independent and substantive predictors” of incident stroke in older men, say WA researchers.
Their population-based study of 3,700 men aged 70 to 89 shows those in the highest compared with the lowest quartile for T and DHT had roughly half the risk of a first stroke, with a mean follow up of nearly seven years.
The finding held even after adjusting for age, cardiovascular risk factors, anticoagulation therapy and head injury on admission for stroke.
