Endocrine Abstracts

Background: HIV-associated hypogonadism is a prevalent endocrine disorder, total testosterone (TT) test is not useful for its diagnosis, Endocrine Society clinical practice guidelines have recently proposed calculated free testosterone (FT) as screening test of hypogonadism in HIV infected men, but no clinical study has been published using this approach in HIV population to date. Our aim was to study prevalence and risk factors for hypogonadism in HIV-infected men using FT.</...