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FDA warns about blood clot risk with testosterone products
“Replacing” a hormone the body normally makes when it is running low isn’t necessarily the safest thing to do. Women and their doctors learned this with estrogen after menopause. Now the FDA is sounding a warning that testosterone therapy can cause potentially dangerous blood clots in men.Blood clots that form in veins (what doctors call venous thromboembolism) come in two “flavors.” Deep-vein thrombosis, or DVT, is a blood clot that forms in a deep vein, often in the leg. It can make the affected leg swell or cause leg pain. If a DVT, or part of one, breaks away and gets into the bloodstream, it can block blood flow to the lungs. This is called a pulmonary embolism. A large pulmonary embolism can be deadly. Pulmonary embolism, along with DVT, kill as many as 180,000 Americans each year, more than the number of people who die from breast, prostate, colon, and skin cancers combined.
The FDA had previously warned about a testosterone-therapy-related increase in blood clots in men with a condition called polycythemia. Polycythemia is a condition in which the body makes too many red blood cells, which increases the risk of blood clots. Its latest warning comes from reports of blood clots in men without polycythemia.
The new warning is not related to the FDA’s evaluation of possible links between testosterone therapy and stroke, heart attack, and death.
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