From Reuters

The very oldest men are still interested in sex but illness and a lack of opportunity may be holding them back, Australian researchers reported on Monday.

The “male” hormone testosterone was clearly linked with how often a man over 75 had sex, and doctors need to do more studies to see if hormone replacement therapy might benefit older men, the researchers said.

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Zoe Hyde of the University of Western Australia and colleagues surveyed more than 2,700 men aged 75 to 95 for their study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

They asked a range of questions about health, relationships and sexual activity.

“The older men were, the less likely they were to be sexually active, but sex remained at least somewhat important to one fifth of men aged 90 to 95 years, refuting the stereotype of the asexual older person,” they wrote in their report.

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Up to 25 percent of men have testosterone levels that fall below normal in middle age, sometimes leading to "male menopause.

(Health.com) – Sweaty, sleepless nights. Inexplicable grouchiness. Weight gain, headaches, and no sex drive. Many women approaching menopause can relate — and so can Mike Coleman.

Last year, a string of restless nights sent the 46-year-old insurance agent from Lineville, Alabama, to his doctor. After a blood workup, Coleman was informed that his testosterone levels were below normal, and were likely to blame for the symptoms he’d been experiencing.

“It made sense,” he says. “My energy levels were not what they used to be. But you kind of think, ‘How could this happen to me?’ ”
Coleman’s condition isn’t all that rare. Quite a few men — up to 25 percent — have testosterone levels that fall below normal in middle age, and in some cases this transition causes a collection of symptoms that has come to be known as “male menopause” (or “manopause”).

“Testosterone levels gradually decline with aging, usually around age 40,” says Alvin Matsumoto, M.D., a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, in Seattle. Although the decline is natural, Matsumoto adds, “that doesn’t mean it has no physiological or clinical consequences or shouldn’t be treated.”

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By Kathleen Blanchard RN, Emaxhealth

Many patients living with diabetes remain sexually active, despite less desire. Men with diabetes are more likely to experience erectile dysfunction. Women and men may have difficulty with orgasm. New findings show that even though diabetes hampers sexual activity, 70 percent of men and 62 percent of women living with diabetes enjoy sex 2 to 3 times a month.

The number of diabetics found in the study engaging in sexual activity was comparable to those withoutdiabetes. The findings highlight the importance of recognizing problems experience by diabetics that can impair sex.

Diabetes Effects on Sexuality

Erectile Dysfunction is a recognized complication caused by vascular disease, pelvic trauma, peyronies disease, diabetes, hormone imbalances, psychological conditions, neurologic conditions, and mant others.

Researchers say the psychological effects of diabetes may have an effect on sexual activity. Men especially report lack of desire and erectile dysfunction. Men report climaxing too quickly, while both genders say they have trouble reaching orgasm.

“Patients and doctors need to know that most middle age and older adults with partners are still sexually active despite their diabetes,” said the study’s lead author Stacy Lindau, MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of medicine at the University of Chicago. “However, many people with diabetes have sexual problems that are not being addressed.”

Diabetic women with partners tend to avoid sex. They also don’t want to talk about it with their physician. Compared to 47 percent of men, only 19 percent of women said they had initiated discussion with their healthcare provider about sexual problems.

Some diabetics don’t know they have the disease. In the study that took place between July 2005 and March 2006 via questionnaires and interviews, 22 percent of men and 19 percent of women had diabetes not yet diagnosed. The findings are from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project that included 2,000 people aged 57 to 85. Until now, there has been limited information about sexual activity among patients with diabetes.

“Failure to recognize and address sexual issues among middle-age and older adults with diabetes may impair quality of life and adaptation to the disease,” said Marshall Chin, MD, senior author of the study and professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. “Sexual problems are common in patients with diabetes, and many patients are not discussing these issues with their physicians.”

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From ScienceDaily

Men who develop prostate cancer, especially the more aggressive and dangerous forms that spread throughout the body, tend to retain denser bones as they age than men who stay free of the disease, suggests new research from Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health.

The finding, published in the July British Journal of Urology International, could help scientists gain a better grasp on what causes prostate cancer and its spread.

Researchers have long known that prostate cancers that spread, or metastasize, often migrate to bone. That idea led Stacy Loeb, M.D., a resident in the Department of Urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and her colleagues to wonder whether there is a connection between bone characteristics and prostate cancer development and metastasis.

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“We reasoned there may be some difference between men who develop prostate cancer, especially metastatic disease, and those who don’t, and it was logical to see if there was something different about their bones,” says Loeb.

To investigate, she and her colleagues used data from the NIA’s Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging , a long-term study that has tracked various health-related information for hundreds of Baltimore-areaparticipants since 1958. The researchers collected data on the bone mineral density of 519 men, measured from 1973 to 1984. They then used the same collection of data to see which men were eventually diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Typically, bone density declines with age in both men and women. However, Loeb and her colleagues found that the 76 men in their study who went on to develop prostate cancer had bone density that remained significantly higher as they aged, compared with those who remained cancer free. The findings held up even after the researchers accounted for lifestyle factors that might influence bone density, such as smoking, body mass index, and intake of dietary calcium and vitamin D.

Further examination showed that the 18 men who developed the high-risk form of the disease retained the highest bone density, but the researchers caution that the number of patients is too small to make any final conclusions about bone features and metastatic disease.

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