Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Men with the metabolic syndrome have low plasma testosterone (T) levels. We aimed to study whether normalization of plasma T in such men improved features of the metabolic syndrome over the longer term.Design/methods: 145 men, 35 to 70 years, with the metabolic syndrome and hypogonadism (baseline total testosterone level <12.0 nmol/l or calculated free T level <225 pmol/l). They had received treatment for 30 weeks with either parent...