Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Men with obesity often have low total and, with increasing adiposity, also free testosterone (T) levels, which can partially restore when they lose weight. Although this is in part explained by lower sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG) production and hypothalamic-pituitary downregulation, it is still not fully unraveled whether changes in androgen metabolization contribute to this phenomenon.Aim: Investigating metabolisation of sex steroids d...