{"id":14044,"date":"2026-09-03T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=14044"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:34:17","slug":"us-pentagon-issues-clinical-guidelines-on-troop-testosterone-screening-to-start-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=14044","title":{"rendered":"US Pentagon issues clinical guidelines on troop testosterone screening to start immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Pentagon has issued detailed guidance for a new, mandatory testosterone deficiency screening policy for active-duty and \u200breserve service members aged 30 and older, a follow-up \u200cto US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2015894\">July announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guidance, which was issued on Wednesday and is effective immediately, establishes standardised screening and treatment pathways for men and women that the \u200bPentagon says are aimed at improving military readiness by \u200bidentifying and managing hormonal and energy-availability issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hegseth, who has \u2060promoted the use of testosterone, announced the mandate last month, \u200braising questions among experts about whether there was a scientific basis for \u200bsuch a policy. The US Food and Drug Administration plans to hold a meeting of experts to discuss the medical use of testosterone in mid-September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According \u200bto the guidance, men aged 30 and older will receive \u200bmandatory testosterone blood tests, while younger men will be tested only on \u200crequest \u2060or if clinicians identify warning signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For women, the guidance does not mandate routine testosterone blood tests, but it calls for screening for fatigue and disrupted menstrual cycles that can be associated \u200bwith hormonal dysregulation \u200band conditions called \u2060low-energy availability and relative energy deficiency in sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The document lays out guidelines for when it \u200bis appropriate to prescribe off-label testosterone in women, \u200bnamely for \u2060postmenopausal women with unusually low sexual desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doctors have raised concerns that broad testosterone testing could lead to unnecessary or potentially harmful \u2060treatment, saying \u200bthere is little evidence that universal \u200bscreening for low testosterone among military personnel would improve US combat readiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Pentagon has issued detailed guidance for a new, mandatory testosterone deficiency screening policy for active-duty and \u200breserve service members aged 30 and older,..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-163027.png",484,563,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-163027-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-163027-258x300.png",258,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-163027.png",484,563,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-163027.png",484,563,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-163027.png",484,563,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-163027.png",484,563,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14045,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044\/revisions\/14045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}