Sex Hormones and Frailty in Older Men: The Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study

January 2010 in “ Yearbook of Endocrinology ”

A.W. Meikle

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Studysummary Older men with lower levels of available testosterone are more likely to be frail.

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