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The clinical criteria of male hypogonadism refers to failure of testicular function resulting in decreased production or absence of male sex hormones and impaired spermatogenesis, whether this failure is secondary to hypothalamic and pituitary dysfunction or is primary testicular failure [ 20].
Considering that the frequency of RAD in Mexico City, where our study was performed, is about 0.83% (including RA 0.62%; SLE 0.03%; polymyositis/dermatomyositis 0.04%; JRA 0.03%; AS 0.01%; and other RAD [Sjogren's syndrome, mix connective tissue disease, etc.], 0.1%) [ 32], the relatively large number of cases of RAD in this very small group of male patients with untreated hypogonadism was surprisingly high ( P < 0.001), suggesting a strong relation between the two conditions (see Supplementary Table 2).
If our argument is correct, low serum testosterone levels favor the development of RAD in the hypogonadic male patient, while in the normogonadic male who develops RAD (mainly in RA) the decrease of testosterone serum levels is due to an increase in its metabolism for the activated immune system, with the subsequent elevation of E 2 . These differences could also explain the low or almost null association of RA and hypogonadism [ 13].
The frequency of SLE in male patients with hypogonadism was higher than would be expected in the general population.
The other four of the 13 patients had hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (46,XY); two of this group had Kallmann's syndrome and two had idiopathic cryptorchidism.
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