Male Hormone May Help Heart Failure Patients
[...] Heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalization in people over the age of 65 in the U.S.
About 5 million Americans have heart failure, and each year about half a million more get diagnosed with it, which means their hearts have a reduced capacity to pump blood efficiently.
When this happens, the heart can become enlarged, fluid may build up in the soft tissues and organs, and people typically become exhausted with exertion.
"Patients with heart failure don't feel very well, in part because they can't exercise," says Clyde Yancy, MD, chief of cardiology at Chicago's Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
"The idea of a novel treatment approach that can help improve exercise capacity is very intriguing," he says.
The studies included nearly 200 patients, most of whom were men. They were 67 years old, on average.
About half the patients received testosterone by injection, patch, or gel, for as little as three months or as long as a year. The other half got a placebo.
The study appears in the journal Circulation. [...]
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