Panel discussion: Are men more prone to diabetes and metabolic syndrome?

Chair: M Zitzmann,  Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Muenster, Germany

H Jones, Barnsley Hospital and University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

 

• Epidemiology of gender differences in diabetes and the metabolic syndrom

M Zitzmann,  Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Muenster, Germany

 

• More than 8 years of experinece in treating men with type-2-diabetes with testosterone

H Jones, Barnsley Hospital and University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

 

• The Moscow Study

S Kalinchenko,  Endocrinological Research Center, Moscow, Russia

 

• The link between testosterone deficiency and metabolic syndrome and insulin
  resistance
  

A Guay, Lahey Clinic Northshore, Peabody, Massachusetts, USA

 

• Management differences, intervention, lifestyle

A Heufelder,  Endokrinologie Maximilianstrasse, Munich, Germany

• Gender related pitfalls and openings in prevention of metabolic syndrome related type 2 diabetes

S Arver, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

 

• Q & A