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Society for Endocrinology BES 2008

Clinical Debate

This house believes that males become menopausal

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Male menopause: a non-existing phenomenon

Andersson Anna-Maria

Female menopause is an inevitable condition caused by biological programmed primary ovarian failure and resulting in an abrupt deficiency in estrogens. Men may experience a gradual decline in androgen levels with increasing age but, in contrast to the phenomenon in women, it is questionable whether this is an inevitable biologically programmed event or whether it is related to other age- related changes or to long-term effects of lifestyle factors.Hormon...