Androgen therapy for peptic ulcer disease

If the role of the female sex hormone in peptic ulcer disease has recently been given more and more attention in domestic literature (E. Ya. Reznitskaya, A. A. Gritsai, M. I. Shevlyagina and others), then androgen therapy of this disease is devoted to relatively few works (M. S. Vovsi, M. I. Shevlyagina, etc.). In our previous works on peptic ulcer disease, we paid attention to the importance of age and gender characteristics in peptic ulcer disease. In accordance with our and other data, on the material in 231 cases of peptic ulcer disease, the prevalence of men (87%) compared with women (13%) was emphasized. It is impossible to agree with the explanation of this fact only by the fact that it is among men that smokers can be found more often, as well as alcohol abusers. We have already noticed for a long time that it is precisely those women who have had many abortions, operations on the genitals, who suffer from infantilism or are in a state of pre-menopause or menopause most often who fall ill with peptic ulcer disease.