Hypogonadism risk factors

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Risk Factors

• Certain autoimmune disorders in sex glands
• Genetic disorders, such as Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome.
• Infectionin sex glands
• Surgery or radiation therapy in sex glands
• Brain diseases, especially in hypothalamus and pituitary gland, including bleeding, trauma, tumors, surgery, radiation therapy, genetic problems, infections, nutritional deficiencies and hemochromatosis.
• Liver and kidney disease