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Effects of chronic marijuana use on testosterone, luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, prolactin and cortisol in men and women
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Effects of chronic marijuana use on testosterone, luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, prolactin and cortisol in men and women

Robert I Block, Roxanna Farinpour and Janet A Schlechte
Drug and alcohol dependence, Vol.28(2), pp.121-128
1991
DOI: 10.1016/0376-8716(91)90068-A
PMID: 1935564

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Abstract

To investigate possible effects of chronic marijuana use on reproductive and stress hormones, we assayed testosterone, luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, prolactin, and cortisol in 93 men and 56 women with a mean (± S.E.) age of 23.5 ± 0.4 years. Hormone values were compared among groups of subjects stratified according to frequency of marijuana use (frequent, moderate and infrequent; N = 27, 18, and 30, respectively) and non-using controls ( N = 74). Chronic marijuana use showed no significant effect on hormone concentrations in either men or women.
cortisol prolactin testosterone marijuana luteinizing hormone follicle stimulating hormone endocrine

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