Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The relationship between metabolic syndrome (MS) and hypogonadism has always been investigated in study groups confounded with aging, obesity or chronic metabolic disorders. So far there has been no data about the presence of MS in young hypogonadal patients. Also there is controversial data about the metabolic effects of testosteron replacement therapy. We investigated the frequency of MS in treatment naïve, young men with congenital hypogonadal hypogonadism (...