What does men’s health encompass?

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    Men's health includes health aspects that are particularly relevant to men, such as testosterone levels, reproductive organs, and prostate health. It primarily focuses on conditions like low testosterone, male sexual dysfunction, infertility, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and prostate cancer while also considering transgender and nonbinary individuals in certain contexts.

    Men’s health encompasses aspects of health most relevant to men, including testosterone, the testes, sperm quality and spermatogenesis, and the prostate. Most research is conducted on cisgender men, but (depending upon the conditions/biological structures investigated), it can also pertain to transgender and nonbinary people. The major conditions that men’s health encompasses are low testosterone (i.e., hypogonadism), male sexual dysfunction, male infertility, benign-prostatic-hyperplasia, and prostate-cancer.