Testosterone Treatment Improves Bone Density and Anemia, But May Lead to Cardiac Risk

Testosterone Treatment Improves Bone Density and Anemia, But May Lead to Cardiac Risk

February 2017

The Testosterone Trials’ latest results, published in JAMA and JAMA Internal Medicine, show that testosterone treatment for men over age 65 who have low levels of the hormone offers some benefits and not others. Co-author Susan Ellenberg, PhD, commented, “I don’t think anybody would interpret these results as saying, ‘Wow, this is a fountain of youth.”

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