The use of prescription drugs containing testosterone is steadily increasing in Sweden. The funds are used to correct hormonal disorders in men. But now depreciated testosterone is also paid to men with other diagnoses.
– Many men with other diseases, it can be chronic heart disease, rheumatic disease and so on, have low testosterone levels. In these groups, many people have symptoms and discomfort needlessly because of the low testosterone levels, says Stefan Arver, director of Andrology center at Karolinska.
Using testosterone to reduce the effects of aging has become very popular in the United States.
The marketing of drugs is widespread there and many men using testosterone to slow the signs of aging such as fatigue, decreased sexual desire and weaker muscles.
Now take more and more Swedish men also testosterone supplements.
The discharge has increased steadily in recent years, and last year it was close to 15 000 Swedish men who received hormone printed, showing the National Board of Health Statistics.
Europe Medicines Agency recently recommended that testosterone therapy should only be given when it is determined by laboratory tests that the man has a lack of the hormone.
There have been concerns that it may provide cardiovascular problems and it is found that testosterone may increase blood pressure.
Authority will to monitor the results of studies in progress on the preparation security.
Stefan Arver do not think anyone needing testosterone also get it printed.
There was great disagreement in the medical community a few years ago after a pharmaceutical company operated an unconventional campaign for testosterone.
The male hormone is controversial, says Stefan Arver.
– The testosterone is for some reason a very controversial hormone. It builds well on these mytbildningarna around it, that you can regulate sexuality with increased testosterone levels. There is a tremendous skepticism in some quarters and more enthusiasm in others. But I think the Swedish medical profession is basically very careful and scrupulous care to make proper investigations before inserting treatment, says Stefan Arver.
Can you control the sexuality and power and masculinity?
– It is well, it is a performance. But if you have normal testosterone levels and increasing them nothing happens with sexual desire and activity. Have the other hand, lack there may be a dramatic difference. But increases to a normal level to double or triple so much so nothing happens.
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