Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Robert D. Utiger Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via stu...
The termmale menopauseis sometimes used to describe an equivalent aging-related decline in testicular function that results intestosteronedeficiency in men. This process is alternatively referred to as late-onsethypogonadismor andropause. It affects about 2 percent of men and may begin at age 40. Un...
Long-term medical management of endometriosis with dienogest and with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist and add-back hormone therapy. Fertil Steril 2017; 107(3): 537-48.Bedaiwy MA, Allaire C, Alfaraj S, et al. Lx>ng-term medical management of endometriosis with dienogest and with a ...
Comparison of long-term use of combined oral contraceptive after gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist plus add-back therapy versus dienogest to prevent r... long-term use of COC after GnRH agonist plus add-back therapy is comparable to dienogest as a long-term postoperative medical treatment for...
Researchers have discovered the vital role of a hormone, which develops in men during puberty, in providing an early prediction of whether they could develop certain diseases in later life.
It was tested in a logistic model for an objective response or a Cox model for PFS with a treatment-by-factor interaction term. The analyses were conducted with a model-based likelihood ratio test set at a 2-sided 0.1 α level. For all secondary endpoints, we used two-sided p-values ...
(PRNP), causing the inherited prion diseases. Acquired or iatrogenic CJD is rare, currently accounting for approximately 1% of recognized cases. Iatrogenic CJD arises from accidental inoculation with prions during medical or surgical procedures. These include former use of human cadaveric pituitary-...
It is important that the total long-term precision of laboratory methods meet the medical needs of the patients being served.To determine the long-term within- and between-laboratory variation of cortisol, ferritin, thyroxine, free thyroxine, and thyroid-stimulating hormone measurements using commonly...
found that short-term drought led to an imbalance in ROS metabolism, and S. baicalensis regulated ROS levels by increasing the activities of protective enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxidase (POD) (Zhang et al. 2013). Second, the accumulation of secondary metabolites in S. ...
Intermittent fasting has gained tremendous popularity over the last decade as a weight loss regimen [1,2]. Intermittent fasting is an umbrella term for three different diets: alternate day fasting (ADF), the 5:2 diet, and time-restricted eating (TRE). ADF involves a “feast day”, where ...