High Testosterone Levels Can Increase Risk Of Heart Failure And Blood Clots In Men

reports that investigators found, in “the mendelian randomization study, which included nearly 400,000 middle-age men and women...that for each unit increase of endogenous testosterone predicted by variants of the JMJD1C gene, the risk of heart failure in men increased nearly eight-fold.” The study indicated that “the risk of thromboembolism in men doubled for each unit increase in testosterone...but the risk for myocardial infarction was not significant.” Meanwhile, “in women, testosterone was not associated with significant risk for any cardiovascular outcome.” https://www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/prevention/78435