Is male gynaecomastia associated with an increased risk of death? A nationwide register-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Recent evidence supports that gynaecomastia may predict long-term morbidity, but evidence on the association with death and causes of death in males with gynaecomastia is lacking. The objective of this work is to estimate the risk of death in men diagnosed with gynaecomastia and evaluate whether this was conditional on underlying aetiologies of gynaecomastia.

Design

A nationwide register-based cohort study.

Setting

Nationwide Danish national health registries.

Participants

Males were diagnosed with incident gynaecomastia (n=23 429) from 1 January 1995 to 30 June 2021, and each was age and calendar matched to five randomly population-based males without gynaecomastia (n=117 145).

Interventions

Not applicable.

Primary and secondary outcomes

SUBMITTER: Brauner EV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826571 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature