Salivary Testosterone

Salivary Testosterone

Measuring testosterone in saliva can be a non-invasive alternative to diagnose and monitor patients with androgen level related disorders. Salivary testosterone is concluded to be an established means to screen hypogonadism in adult males, and correlates to plasma free testosterone levels. Measuring testosterone may be important for identifying women with hirsutism or polycysticovarian syndrome (PCOS), patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), or males with hypogonadism