Growth hormone treatment in human ageing: benefits and risks

Roberta Giordano, Lorenza Bonelli, Elisa Marinazzo, Ezio Ghigo, Emanuela Arvat

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This paper will focus on the rationale of using Growth Hormone (GH) as an anti-ageing therapy in the healthy elderly with age-related decline in the activity of the GH/IGF-I axis, the so called “somatopause”. Although the age-related decline in the activity of the GH/IGF-I axis is considered to contribute to age-related changes …

Late-onset hypogonadism in men. Experience from the Turku Male Ageing Study (TuMAS)

Ilpo Huhtaniemi, Juuso I. Mäkinen, Antti Perheentupa, Olli T. Raitakari

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Interest has arisen during the last 10 years as to the possible connection between the age-related decline in androgen production and symptoms of ageing in men. A new ageing-related syndrome with several descriptive names …