“…Cross-sectional studies have demonstrated an association between low testosterone (T) and T2DM since the early 1980s (Daubresse et al, 1978;Shahwan et al, 1978;Andò et al, 1984;Phillips, 1984;Small et al, 1987;Semple et al, 1988;Barrett-Connor et al, 1990;Barrett-Connor, 1992;Andersson et al, 1994;Tibblin et al, 1996;Defay et al, 1998;Chearskul et al, 2000;Zietz et al, 2000;Jang et al, 2001;Abou-Seif & Youssef, 2001;Abate et al, 2002;Corona et al, 2004;Corrales et al, 2004;Dhindsa et al, 2004;Svartberg et al, 2004b;Achemlal et al, 2005;Pitteloud et al, 2005;Rhoden et al, 2005;Chen et al, 2006;Corona et al, 2006;Crawford et al, 2007;Kapoor et al, 2007a;Selvin et al, 2007;Ibáñez et al, 2008;Hamdan & Al-Matubsi, 2008;Corona et al, 2009a,b). Accordingly, a previous meta-analysis (Ding et al, 2006) of available cross-sectional studies indicated that total testosterone (TT) was significantly lower in men with T2DM.…”