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Friday, May 4, 2012

Testosterone may benefit patients with heart failure.

On its website, ABC News (4/18) reports, "Testosterone can ease shortness of breath and improve exercise endurance among patients with chronic heart failure, according to" research published in the journal Circulation Heart Failure.
        MSNBC /My HealthNews Daily (4/18, Rettner) reports, "Although most of the study participants were men, the researchers said the results would likely apply to women as well, through much smaller doses of testosterone."
        HealthDay (4/18, Mozes) reports investigators "analyzed four randomized studies, conducted between 1980 and 2010, which had examined the potential benefit of treating heart failure patients with testosterone supplementation."
        WebMD (4/18, Boyles) reports, "In two studies, the severity of heart failure improved more for patients who got testosterone treatment, compared to those who got a placebo."
        MedPage Today (4/18, Neale) reports, "In pooled results from" the "trials, testosterone therapy was associated with 16% to 23% relative improvements in walking distance and peak oxygen consumption." The investigators also found that "there were improvements in fasting levels of glucose and insulin and in insulin sensitivity."

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