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Associations of sex hormone levels with body mass index (BMI) in men: a cross-sectional study using quantile regression analysis

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ASIAN JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY
卷 25, 期 1, 页码 98-102

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WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.4103/aja202212

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body mass index; estradiol; obesity; overweight; testosterone

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Previous studies have reported an association between body mass index (BMI) and sex hormone levels. However, these studies used linear or logistic regression models, which may result in the loss of important information. Our study compared different regression models and found that BMI was associated with testosterone and estradiol levels. Importantly, quantile regression revealed that BMI was only associated with estradiol levels up to the 80th percentile.
Body mass index (BMI) has been increasing globally in recent decades. Previous studies reported that BMI was associated with sex hormone levels, but the results were generated via linear regression or logistic regression, which would lose part of information. Quantile regression analysis can maximize the use of variable information. Our study compared the associations among different regression models. The participants were recruited from the Center of Reproductive Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University (Changchun, China) between June 2018 and June 2019. We used linear, logistic, and quantile regression models to calculate the associations between sex hormone levels and BMI. In total, 448 men were included in this study. The average BMI was 25.7 (standard deviation [s.d.]: 3.7) kg m-2; 29.7% (n = 133) of the participants were normal weight, 45.3% (n = 203) of the participants were overweight, and 23.4% (n = 105) of the participants were obese. The levels of testosterone and estradiol significantly differed among BMI groups (all P < 0.05). In linear regression and logistic regression, BMI was associated with testosterone and estradiol levels (both P < 0.05). In quantile regression, BMI was negatively associated with testosterone levels in all quantiles after adjustment for age (all P < 0.05). BMI was positively associated with estradiol levels in most quantiles (& LE;80th) after adjustment for age (all P < 0.05). Our study suggested that BMI was one of the influencing factors of testosterone and estradiol. Of note, the quantile regression showed that BMI was associated with estradiol only up to the 80th percentile of estradiol.

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