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| Title |
Do statins lower testosterone and does it matter?
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-58 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Allan D Sniderman, George Thanassoulis |
| Abstract |
Drugs are two-sided swords and statins are no exception. Schooling et al. demonstrate that, on average, statins produce small, but statistically significant, decreases in testosterone. They appropriately emphasize that the clinical significance of their observations is unclear but suggest that changes in testosterone might be related to the benefits of therapy as well as the risks, such as the increased chance of diabetes mellitus. Their findings and hypotheses are noteworthy. However, we believe this represents another example of the limitations in the published summaries of drug effects. How do we know all changes induced by drugs are normally distributed? Some may be affected much more than others. Moreover, the confidence intervals of a meta-analysis describe the variance of the mean effect, not the range of effects, and while the mean change characterizes the impact of a drug on a group of patients, the range more fully characterizes its effects on individuals. We treat individuals not groups. Averages do not disclose enough about the risks and benefits of drugs. See related research article here http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/57. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 30 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 13% |
| Portugal | 1 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 18 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 17 | 57% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 12 | 40% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 24 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 23 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 6 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 17% |
| Other | 3 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 4 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 46% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 8% |
| Sports and Recreations | 2 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 13% |
| Unknown | 4 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 March 2023.
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#1,650,500
of 25,743,152 outputs
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#1,165
of 4,083 outputs
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#12,443
of 205,963 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#34
of 96 outputs
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