Low testosterone in men tied to severe COVID-19New data presented at the European Association of Urology congress this week show that men with low testosterone who were hospitalized for severe COVID-19 during the first wave of infections in Milan, Italy, were more likely to need intensive care and mechanical ventilation, and they had a sixfold increased risk of death.The findings come from San Raffaele University Hospital in Milan, where researchers compared 286 male COVID-19 patients who presented for emergency care, with 305 healthy controls who donated blood at the hospital from February to May 2020.
Both groups had hormone testing, and low testosterone was defined as 9.2 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L).Ninety percent of the males with