The chicken or the egg: low testosterone predisposes for COVID-19 or COVID-19 induces a decrease in testosterone?

Crit Care. 2021 Jul 7;25(1):237. doi: 10.1186/s13054-021-03664-9.

Roeland F Stolk^{1

2}, Henk J van Leeuwen^{3

4}, Matthijs Kox^{1

2}, Marcel van Borren⁵, Hans de Boer⁴, Peter Pickkers^{6

7}

¹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
² Radboud Centre for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Rijnstate, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Rijnstate, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Rijnstate, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Peter.pickkers@radboudumc.nl.
⁷ Radboud Centre for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Peter.pickkers@radboudumc.nl.

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