Sentences with phrase «adrenal androgen production»

Among oophorectomized women not consuming estrogen, free testosterone levels were 39 % lower in opioid consumers (P <.05), indicating impaired adrenal androgen production.

PERSPECTIVE: These observations demonstrate profound inhibition of ovarian sex hormone and adrenal androgen production among women chronically consuming sustained - action opioids.

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For example, certain biological events during early development, such as excessive androgen production, exposure to synthetic androgens, thyroid dysfunction, Cushing's disease, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, can combine with environmental influences to predispose women to antisocial behavior.69 Additionally, EEG research has uncovered asymmetries in the frontal activation of antisocial females» brains.70 Normative males and females tend to exhibit asymmetric frontal brain activation, with boys having greater right frontal activation and girls having greater left frontal activation.