No Cardio Risk from Testosterone

Name: No Cardio Risk from Testosterone
Uploaded: 2025-06-05T01:15:02+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok (speaker) argues that the FDA’s claim that testosterone therapy increases cardiovascular risk is unsupported. He says the FDA based the…

5 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok (speaker) argues that the FDA’s claim that testosterone therapy increases cardiovascular risk is unsupported. He says the FDA based the claim on one faulty/retracted paper, cites a large 2016 study of about 83,000 men followed for six years (≈480,000 person-years), and references a Veterans Affairs (VA) analysis reporting that men receiving testosterone replacement had roughly half the mortality (including cardiovascular) compared with untreated men. The speaker’s stance: testosterone replacement decreases all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.

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2016

About 83,000 men

Six years

Approximately 480,000 person-years (83,000 men × 6 years)

They were reported to be about half as likely to be dead (≈50% lower all-cause and mainly cardiovascular mortality) compared with men who did not receive testosterone replacement.

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The evidence does not support the increased risk of cardiovascular events in testosterone therapy. They have this as a resolution. The FDA has made a claim that testosterone increases the risk of cardiovascular events, and this is nothing further from the truth. This has never been demonstrated in any way, shape or form. There was one faulted retracted paper that suggested that, and that's what they based it on. The largest study was in 2016, with about 83,000 men that had low testosterone. And they followed them over six years. So 80,000 men over six years is 480,000 person years. We refer to more than a massive study done through the va. And they found the men that were had testosterone replaced were half as likely to be dead as the men who did not have testosterone replacement therapy. And it's mostly cardiovascular events. It actually decreases all cause mortality. Testosterone replacement.