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Sex-Specific Associations of Testosterone and Genetic Factors With Health Span

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested associations between testosterone, genetic factors, and a series of complex diseases, but the associations with the lifespan phenotype, such as health span, remain unclear. METHODS: In this prospective cohort study, we analyzed 145,481 men and 147,733 wome...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Xiaoyu, Liang, Shuang, Wang, Nanxi, Hong, Tongtong, Sambou, Muhammed Lamin, Fan, Jingyi, Zhu, Meng, Wang, Cheng, Hang, Dong, Jiang, Yue, Dai, Juncheng
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8655098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34899607
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.773464
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author Zhao, Xiaoyu
Liang, Shuang
Wang, Nanxi
Hong, Tongtong
Sambou, Muhammed Lamin
Fan, Jingyi
Zhu, Meng
Wang, Cheng
Hang, Dong
Jiang, Yue
Dai, Juncheng
author_facet Zhao, Xiaoyu
Liang, Shuang
Wang, Nanxi
Hong, Tongtong
Sambou, Muhammed Lamin
Fan, Jingyi
Zhu, Meng
Wang, Cheng
Hang, Dong
Jiang, Yue
Dai, Juncheng
author_sort Zhao, Xiaoyu
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested associations between testosterone, genetic factors, and a series of complex diseases, but the associations with the lifespan phenotype, such as health span, remain unclear. METHODS: In this prospective cohort study, we analyzed 145,481 men and 147,733 women aged 38–73 years old from UK Biobank (UKB) to investigate the sex-specific associations of total testosterone (TT), free testosterone (FT), or polygenic risk score (PRS) with health span termination (HST) risk. At baseline, serum testosterone levels were measured. HST was defined by eight events strongly associated with longevity. PRS, an efficient tool combining the effect of common genetic variants to discriminate genetic risk of complex phenotypes, was constructed by 12 single-nucleotide polymorphisms related to health span from UKB (P ≤ 5.0 × 10(−8)). We used multivariable Cox regression models to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). RESULTS: With a median follow-up time of 7.70 years, 26,748 (18.39%) men and 18,963 (12.84%) women had HST. TT was negatively associated with HST in men [HR per standard deviation (SD) increment of log-TT: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.88–0.97]. Inversely, both TT (HR per SD increment of log-TT: 1.05, 95% CI: 1.02–1.08) and FT (HR per SD increment of log-FT: 1.08, 95% CI: 1.05–1.11) presented an increased risk of HST in women. PRS was positively associated with HST risk (quintile 5 versus quintile 1, men, HR: 1.19, 95% CI: 1.15–1.24; women, HR: 1.21, 95% CI: 1.16–1.27). Moreover, men with high TT and low genetic risk showed the lowest HST risk (HR: 0.80, 95% CI: 0.73–0.88), whereas HST risk for women with both high TT and genetic risk increased obviously (HR: 1.32, 95% CI: 1.19–1.46). Similar joint effects were observed for FT in both genders. CONCLUSIONS: We observed sex-specific associations that testosterone was negatively associated with HST risk in men and positively associated with HST risk in women. Genetic factors increased the HST risk, suggesting that participants with both high genetic risk and abnormal testosterone levels (high level in women or low level in men) should be the target for early intervention. Although our findings highlight the associations between testosterone and health span, further mechanistic studies and prospective trials are warranted to explore the causation behind.
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spelling pubmed-86550982021-12-10 Sex-Specific Associations of Testosterone and Genetic Factors With Health Span Zhao, Xiaoyu Liang, Shuang Wang, Nanxi Hong, Tongtong Sambou, Muhammed Lamin Fan, Jingyi Zhu, Meng Wang, Cheng Hang, Dong Jiang, Yue Dai, Juncheng Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) Endocrinology BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested associations between testosterone, genetic factors, and a series of complex diseases, but the associations with the lifespan phenotype, such as health span, remain unclear. METHODS: In this prospective cohort study, we analyzed 145,481 men and 147,733 women aged 38–73 years old from UK Biobank (UKB) to investigate the sex-specific associations of total testosterone (TT), free testosterone (FT), or polygenic risk score (PRS) with health span termination (HST) risk. At baseline, serum testosterone levels were measured. HST was defined by eight events strongly associated with longevity. PRS, an efficient tool combining the effect of common genetic variants to discriminate genetic risk of complex phenotypes, was constructed by 12 single-nucleotide polymorphisms related to health span from UKB (P ≤ 5.0 × 10(−8)). We used multivariable Cox regression models to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). RESULTS: With a median follow-up time of 7.70 years, 26,748 (18.39%) men and 18,963 (12.84%) women had HST. TT was negatively associated with HST in men [HR per standard deviation (SD) increment of log-TT: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.88–0.97]. Inversely, both TT (HR per SD increment of log-TT: 1.05, 95% CI: 1.02–1.08) and FT (HR per SD increment of log-FT: 1.08, 95% CI: 1.05–1.11) presented an increased risk of HST in women. PRS was positively associated with HST risk (quintile 5 versus quintile 1, men, HR: 1.19, 95% CI: 1.15–1.24; women, HR: 1.21, 95% CI: 1.16–1.27). Moreover, men with high TT and low genetic risk showed the lowest HST risk (HR: 0.80, 95% CI: 0.73–0.88), whereas HST risk for women with both high TT and genetic risk increased obviously (HR: 1.32, 95% CI: 1.19–1.46). Similar joint effects were observed for FT in both genders. CONCLUSIONS: We observed sex-specific associations that testosterone was negatively associated with HST risk in men and positively associated with HST risk in women. Genetic factors increased the HST risk, suggesting that participants with both high genetic risk and abnormal testosterone levels (high level in women or low level in men) should be the target for early intervention. Although our findings highlight the associations between testosterone and health span, further mechanistic studies and prospective trials are warranted to explore the causation behind. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8655098/ /pubmed/34899607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.773464 Text en Copyright © 2021 Zhao, Liang, Wang, Hong, Sambou, Fan, Zhu, Wang, Hang, Jiang and Dai https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Endocrinology
Zhao, Xiaoyu
Liang, Shuang
Wang, Nanxi
Hong, Tongtong
Sambou, Muhammed Lamin
Fan, Jingyi
Zhu, Meng
Wang, Cheng
Hang, Dong
Jiang, Yue
Dai, Juncheng
Sex-Specific Associations of Testosterone and Genetic Factors With Health Span
title Sex-Specific Associations of Testosterone and Genetic Factors With Health Span
title_full Sex-Specific Associations of Testosterone and Genetic Factors With Health Span
title_fullStr Sex-Specific Associations of Testosterone and Genetic Factors With Health Span
title_full_unstemmed Sex-Specific Associations of Testosterone and Genetic Factors With Health Span
title_short Sex-Specific Associations of Testosterone and Genetic Factors With Health Span
title_sort sex-specific associations of testosterone and genetic factors with health span
topic Endocrinology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8655098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34899607
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.773464
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