Increased risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction following testosterone therapy prescription in men.

An association between testosterone therapy (TT) and cardiovascular disease has been reported and TT use is increasing rapidly.We conducted a cohort study of the risk of acute non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) following an initial TT prescription (N = 55,593) in a large health-care database. We c...

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Main Authors: William D Finkle, Sander Greenland, Gregory K Ridgeway, John L Adams, Melissa A Frasco, Michael B Cook, Joseph F Fraumeni, Robert N Hoover
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3905977?pdf=render