What is known as premature andropause is theorized to occur in males who experience excessive female hormone stimulation through workplace exposure to estrogen.
Patients undergoing serious radiation, chemotherapy, or surgery sometimes experience symptoms resembling menopause (in women) or andropause (in men), which indicate reproductive damage.
Men who work in the pharmaceutical industry, plastics factories, near incinerators, and on farms that use pesticides are high-risk for early andropause.
But they were only weakly associated with testosterone, and overall, the researchers found, individual symptoms of andropause appeared frequently in men who didn't have it.
