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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Panach-Navarrete, Jorge
• Morales-Giraldo, Andrés
• Ferrandis-Cortés, Cristina
• García-Morata, Francisco
• Pastor-Lence, Juan Carlos
• Martínez-Jabaloyas, José María

Titel

Is there a relationship between varicocele and testosterone levels?

Ist Teil von

• The aging male, 2020-12, Vol.23 (5), p.592-598

Ort / Verlag

England: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The goal of this work was to study the relationship between presence of varicocele and testosterone serum levels in adulthood. A comparative, cross-sectional study of 387 men who consulted for erectile dysfunction. Age, body mass index (BMI), diabetes (DM), and presence of varicocele were related to testosterone levels through uni- and multi-variate analysis. A total of 248 cases (70.8%) had no varicocele, 46 (13.1%) had grade I varicocele, 36 (10.3%) grade II, and 20 (5.7%) grade III. The mean total testosterone levels were 4.77 ng/mL in the non-varicocele group and 4.34 ng/mL in the varicocele group (p = .91), while free testosterone levels were 69.81 and 73.24 pg/mL (p = .18), respectively. In the multivariate analysis, BMI> = 30 was related to low total testosterone levels (OR: 2.94, p < .001) and low free testosterone (OR: 2.01, p = .01), while advanced age associated with low levels of free testosterone (OR: 1.04, p < .001). We were not able to establish a relationship between the presence of varicocele and decreased serum testosterone levels. Other factors already described, such as obesity and age, were related to low levels of total and free testosterone.