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- Document 0875
- DOCN M9620875
- TI Changes in systemic gonadal and adrenal steroids in asymptomatic human
- immunodeficiency virus-infected men: relationship with the CD4 cell
- counts.
- DT 9602
- AU Laudat A; Blum L; Guechot J; Picard O; Cabane J; Imbert JC; Giboudeau J;
- Laboratoire de Biochimie-Hormonologie, Hopital Saint-Antoine,; Paris,
- France.
- SO Eur J Endocrinol. 1995 Oct;133(4):418-24. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96038764
- AB Serum sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), testosterone, non-SHBG-bound
- testosterone, androstenedione, dihydrotestosterone (DHT),
- dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH),
- luteinizing hormone (LH) and cortisol were measured in 58 homosexual men
- seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), all clinically
- asymptomatic (Centers for Disease Control 1993 classification stage A).
- The HIV patients were divided into four groups according to the CD4
- lymphocyte count--group 1 (more than 500/microliters, N = 14), group 2
- (between 350 and 500/microliters, N = 16), group 3 (between 200 and
- 349/microliters, N = 22) and group 4 (less than 200/microliters, N =
- 6)--and compared with 11 antibody-negative men as controls. The SHBG
- levels were significantly increased in groups 1, 2, 3 (p < 0.01) and 4
- (p < 0.05) compared with controls, with no differences between groups of
- patients. Compared with controls, testosterone concentrations were
- significantly lower in group 4 (p < 0.05) and non-SHBG-bound
- testosterone levels were significantly lower in groups 1 (p < 0.05), 2
- (p < 0.01), 3 (p < 0.001) and group 4 (p < 0.001); DHT and
- androstenedione levels were significantly lower in group 4 (p < 0.05)
- and DHEA levels were significantly lower in group 2, group 3 (p < 0.01)
- and group 4 (p < 0.05) than in controls. Cortisol levels were
- significantly increased in groups 1 and 4 (p < 0.05) and FSH and LH
- concentrations were not significantly higher in HIV-infected men than in
- controls. Also, the DHEA, androstenedione, non-SHBG-bound testosterone
- and DHT levels were correlated with CD4 cell counts, showing that
- hypogonadism occurs as the CD4 lymphocytes decrease.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED
- AT 250 WORDS)
- DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*BLOOD Adrenal Cortex
- Hormones/*BLOOD Adult Androgens/*BLOOD Androstenedione/BLOOD *CD4
- Lymphocyte Count FSH/BLOOD Homosexuality, Male Human
- Hydrocortisone/BLOOD *HIV-1 LH/BLOOD Male Prasterone/BLOOD Sex
- Hormone-Binding Globulin/METABOLISM Stanolone/BLOOD Testosterone/BLOOD
- JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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