The Survey Of Sex Hormones Levels In Elderly Men With Chronic Heart Failure

The morbidity of heart disease in male was significant higher than that in female. Male gender is an independent risk factor of heart disease even considering of other risk factors. Which indicated the probability relationship between androgen and heart disease. In recent years more attention to the relationship between androgen level and heart disease in males was paid. But the conclusions from a few studies were discrepancy. Heart failure is the last common passage of all kinds of serious heart diseases and the morbidity was increasing. Heart failure was become to the important cause of hospitalization in aged more than 65 and was the major death cause of heart diseases. The studies about the relationship between heart failure and sex hormones levels were relative less. In this study we studied the sex hormones levels in elderly men with chronic heart failure and the relationship between sex hormones levels and heart function and all sorts of risk factors by surveying the sex hormones levels in elderly men with chronic heart failure and compared with the sex hormones levels in healthy elderly men with the same age.The fist partObjective: To understand the sex hormones levels in elderly men with chronic heart failure and changes with age by measuring the sex hormones levels .Methods: The one hundred male investigation objects aged between 60-87 years (70.35 ± 8.63) were chosen from five hospitals from Beijing, Shanghai and Shandong between 2002-2004, which were clinical diagnosed with chronic heart failure and coincidence the Framingham diagnosis standard of heart failure. Left ventricular ejection fraction of these patients were less than 0.45. The progress of these patients...