Lowest rate of Testosterone on Older persons Causes Anemia

Men and women of old age over 65 years and has a lowest rate of testosterone, have a high-risk affected anemia, results of research experts.

During this, testosterone hormone associated with male hormone, female normally have testosterone hormone which measure lower compared with men.

Low rate of testosterone is a key factors for the occurrence of anemia, which is not observed, Dr. Luigi Ferruci, from National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland and his team describe the in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

According to them, the low rate of testosterone should be able to become a potential instruction of occurrence factor of anemia in older people, particularly when other cause factors not found.

The findings obtained by the research team based on research results on the population in Italy, where the degree and testosterone hemoglobin influences each other. They conduct research on 905 parents who have aged more than 65 years.

Hemoglobin is a component of oxygen in the cells blood red. While the definition of anemia is the concentration of HB under 12 grams per deciliter on women and under 13 grams per deciliter on men.

At the beginning of the research there are 31 men and 57 women who experience anemia, with hemoglobin values under the normal value.

Men's degree with a very low testosterone will experience anemia fivefold higher compared with men who has higher level of testosterone, while the rate for women low testosterone will experience anemia twice higher.

While for those who initially have a hemoglobin level normal, but have a low testosterone level, will risk natural anemia in three years.

Although there is a statistically meaningful relationship between low testosterone level with the low hemoglobin level, but many people have low testosterone level but not anemia and those who are, have a normal testosterone level.

The findings from these experts said that the low level of testosterone can be a trigger but not the occurrence of anemia only to determine the occurrence of anemia; the possibility of other effects can be a compensation mechanism.

At the end of the research, Ferrucci and his team concluded that the anemia happens to the older person because of the diverse factors. Knowing the causes of the occurrence of anemia in this population is important, because the anemia that occurs in older people often cannot be explained, but has a high-risk causes illness associated with decreased of physical function.