Tag: 40

According to an August 29, 2018, article in U.S. News & World Report, a study recently published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine noted that prescriptions given to men 40 and older for testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) more than tripled between the years 2001 and 2011. However, the Endocrine Society estimates that only 3 percent of men truly have a testosterone deficiency. An even more astonishing fact? About one-fourth of the men prescribed TRT during those years had not received a baseline testosterone test. Fortunately, the study adds that after these facts were made public in 2013, TRT prescriptions for men 30 and older decreased by 48 percent over the next three years.