"Hypogonadism Is Uncommon in Men with AIDS-Associated Wasting."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 38th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, held September 24-27, 1998, in San Diego, California, "Hypogonadism is reported to be common in men with advanced AIDS (Poretsky L. et al. Metabolism, 1995 44:946-53) and has been cited as a significant contributor to the AIDS-wasting syndrome (Grinspoon S. et al. JCEM, 1996 81:4051-8). However, some of the published information derives from men selected because they were considered to be hypogonadal and not all surveys of gonadal function in AIDS indicate an increased incidence of hypogonadism (Wilson LD et al. Metabolism, 1996;45:738-460). To gauge the...

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