Hormone Therapy News

BOSTON — Healthy men with obesity and low testosterone randomly assigned testosterone therapy combined with a very low calorie diet maintained their muscle mass while losing body fat, whereas men assigned placebo lost both lean and fat mass, according to study findings presented here.

BOSTON — In adolescent boys with idiopathic short stature, combination therapy with growth hormone and aromatase inhibitors was more effective in increasing adult height potential than growth hormone or aromatase inhibitors alone through 24 months.

BOSTON — Among women with Turner syndrome, bone and body composition alterations are evident even when growth hormone and estrogen therapies are used.

BOSTON — In this video exclusive, Erica A. Eugster, MD, professor of pediatrics and director of the section of pediatric endocrinology at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, discusses long-acting gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues used for the treatment of central precocious puberty.

Healthy men randomly assigned the aromatase-inhibiting drug Arimidex saw reduced insulin resistance at 6 weeks vs. men assigned placebo, according to recent findings.

Women with obesity using oral contraceptives are at greater risk for cerebral venous thrombosis than normal-weight women not using oral contraceptives, according to study results.

Prepubertal children with growth hormone deficiency already present with several cardiovascular risk markers, including abnormal lipid profiles, elevated inflammatory and oxidative stress markers, and reduced cardiac mass, according to a recent review.

In patients with lipodystrophy, leptin replacement is not sufficient to affect elevated apolipoprotein C-III plasma levels.

Discontinuing recombinant human growth hormone therapy in routine clinical practice does not cause significant metabolic changes in older adults, study findings show.

Aromatization to estradiol mediates the tropic effects of testosterone on the prostate, according to study findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.