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Testosterone Use Doesn’t Increase Heart Risk, Study Finds
Findings Run Counter to Earlier Research
By
MELINDA BECK
Updated July 4, 2014 3:51 p.m. ET
A study of 24,000 Medicare patients found that testosterone therapy didn’t increase the risk of heart attack, contrary to several earlier studies, and that it even lowered the risk of heart attack by about 30% in the group of men judged most likely to have one based on other factors.
