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JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., INTRAMURAL
RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.
Testosterone deficiency in young women with 46,XX spontaneous premature ovarian failure.
Fertility and Sterility 2006 November
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether women with 46,XX spontaneous premature ovarian failure have lower serum free-T levels than do control women.
DESIGN: Cross-sectional.
SETTING: National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Center.
PATIENT(S): Women with 46,XX spontaneous premature ovarian failure (n = 130).
INTERVENTION(S): Evaluation while off any estrogen therapy and then again after receiving a standardized hormone regimen. Regularly menstruating control women (n = 65) were sampled during the midfollicular phase.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Serum total T by RIA after extraction and column chromatography, free T by equilibrium dialysis, and sex hormone-binding globulin by immunoradiometric assay.
RESULT(S): While off estrogen therapy patients had a median serum free-T concentration that was statistically significantly lower than controls (2.2 vs. 3.3 pg/mL). This dropped significantly lower to 1.9 pg/mL while the patients were on physiologic transdermal E(2) therapy. This is despite the fact that sex hormone-binding globulin levels did not change. While on E(2) therapy, 13% of women (95% confidence interval, 7.9%-20.3%) had serum free-T levels below the lower limit of normal (<1.1 pg/mL).
CONCLUSION(S): As a group, young women with 46,XX spontaneous premature ovarian failure have reduced circulating free-T levels, both during an interval off of estrogen therapy and while on physiologic transdermal E(2) therapy.
DESIGN: Cross-sectional.
SETTING: National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Center.
PATIENT(S): Women with 46,XX spontaneous premature ovarian failure (n = 130).
INTERVENTION(S): Evaluation while off any estrogen therapy and then again after receiving a standardized hormone regimen. Regularly menstruating control women (n = 65) were sampled during the midfollicular phase.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Serum total T by RIA after extraction and column chromatography, free T by equilibrium dialysis, and sex hormone-binding globulin by immunoradiometric assay.
RESULT(S): While off estrogen therapy patients had a median serum free-T concentration that was statistically significantly lower than controls (2.2 vs. 3.3 pg/mL). This dropped significantly lower to 1.9 pg/mL while the patients were on physiologic transdermal E(2) therapy. This is despite the fact that sex hormone-binding globulin levels did not change. While on E(2) therapy, 13% of women (95% confidence interval, 7.9%-20.3%) had serum free-T levels below the lower limit of normal (<1.1 pg/mL).
CONCLUSION(S): As a group, young women with 46,XX spontaneous premature ovarian failure have reduced circulating free-T levels, both during an interval off of estrogen therapy and while on physiologic transdermal E(2) therapy.
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