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No relationship between testosterone levels and depressive symptoms in aging men

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Yasuhiro Kaneda  and
Akira Fujii
Yasuhiro Kaneda*
Affiliation:
Department of Neuropsychiatry, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan Department of Neuropsychiatry, Fujii Hospital, Fujii, Japan
Akira Fujii
Affiliation:
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Fujii Hospital, Fujii, Japan
*
*Present address: Psychopharmacology Division, Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt, 1601 23rd Avenue South, Suite 306, Nashville,TN 37212, USA. E-mail address:kaneday@clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp (Y. Kaneda).
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Summary

We investigated the associations between depression and serum testosterone levels in the elderly. There was no significant difference in the mean levels of the serum testosterone between the groups of patients and normals. For both groups, there was no significant correlation between testosterone and total depression scores or age.

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DepressionTestosteroneAge
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European Psychiatry , Volume 17 , Issue 7 , November 2002 , pp. 411 - 413
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Copyright © Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS 2002

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