Low male hormones may predict metabolic syndrome

A research team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, evaluated at the relationship between metabolic syndrome in 618 men, average age 63 years, and the amount of male hormones flowing in their blood.

While it is natural for male hormones to decline with age, the researchers concluded that among study participants of the same age that those with lower androgen levels had developed metabolic syndrome.

Considering  that increased belly size, cholesterol and blood sugar abnormalities and high blood pressure are conditions among symptoms of metabolic syndrome, this new study also suggest that low male hormone levels may predict an increased metabolic syndrome risk.