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Dr Malcolm Carruthers: Testosterone deficiency Screen on your phone
Dr Malcolm Carruthers: Testosterone deficiency Screen on your phone
Medical application on mobile smart phones are now all the rage as a recent article in the Daily Mail has shown (Why your phone is now the doctor in your pocket – March 2 2010).
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19/04/2010
"Medical application on mobile smart phones are now all the rage as a recent article in the Daily Mail has shown (Why your phone is now the doctor in your pocket – March 2 2010)."
Medical application on mobile smart phones are now all the rage as a recent article in the Daily Mail has shown (Why your phone is now the doctor in your pocket – March 2 2010). These ‘Health apps’ include diabetes managers, acne managers, fertility managers, and now one that screens you for symptoms of testosterone deficiency, the male menopause or andropause.
Symptoms Key to Diagnosing Testosterone Deficiency
The typical symptoms of Andropause are why the condition got its name. Loss of energy, drive, libido, potency, irritability, depression, joint pains, night sweats and even hot flushes make the condition as near to the female menopause as a man can manage. Substitute loss of morning erections for menstrual periods, and there you have it, whatever the cause of testosterone deficiency.
True there is no sudden drop in testosterone in men at a characteristic age, as there is in women at the menopause – For a change men are more complicated than women. Even if there is no sudden drop in levels of the hormone caused by stresses such as loss of job or a loved one, they can become resistant to its actions and develop a relative deficiency [1], as with insulin in adult onset diabetes.
Still doctors like to cling to lab tests for diagnosis, even when they have been proved to be largely invalid [2]. Why is there this sex discrimination against men, when they go to their doctors complaining of these symptoms? A woman around the age of 50 will not get lab tests to try to confirm the diagnosis. Instead she will get sympathy and an offer of HRT if she wants it. Men are told they are just imagining it, it just your age, or that they are depressed, and offered antidepressants, which often make their symptoms worse. As a result, world-wide only 1% of the 20% of men over the age of 50 who would be likely to benefit from testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) are getting it. This makes testosterone deficiency the most common hormonal disorder in men, but the least commonly treated [3].
The AMS Scale and T-app
The best symptom scale for diagnosing testosterone deficiency is the AMS scale developed by Professor Lothar Heinemann in Germany. It is scaleable, well validated, has been used in many studies, is available in over 20 different languages, and can be used both for diagnosis and for monitoring the response to testosterone treatment. Now for the first time it is available as an application on your mobile phone.
Try it now on http://www.androscreen.com
For more information on Dr. Malcolm Carruthers visit http://www.centreformenshealth.co.uk
About the author:
Dr Malcolm Carruthers, of Harley Street in London, is one of the very few UK based physicians who specialise in the diagnosis and treatment of testosterone deficiency. With a broad training in general and laboratory medicine, for the last twenty years he has specialised in Men’s Health, andrology, particularly treating the Andropause aka Male Menopause.
Dr Carruthers is Medical Director of the Centre for Men’s Health. His consultations cover the investigation and treatment of the wide range of general medical problems which can cause testosterone deficiency, and ensure a balanced discussion of benefits and possible risks when testosterone treatment is being considered.
He has taught nationally and internationally on TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy), and with three popular books on the subject, Male Menopause, Maximising Manhood and The Testosterone Revolution, together with a textbook, ADAM : Androgen Deficiency in the Adult Male, is a widely recognised expert on the subject.
contact:
Centre for Men’s Health, 20/20 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PH
Tel +44(0)207 636 8283 Fax +44(0)207 636 8292
Web: www.centreformenshealth.co.uk
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About
He has taught nationally and internationally on TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy), and with three popular books on the subject, Male Menopause, Maximising Manhood and The Testosterone Revolution, together with a textbook, ADAM : Androgen Deficiency in the Adult Male, is a widely recognised expert on the subject.
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