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Causes and symptoms of gynecomastia or male breasts

What causes gynecomastia during puberty, and how long does it last? What diseases and conditions cause gynecomastia? read here for more info http://healthfirstmagazine.blogspot.com/2017/05/causes-and-symptoms-of-gynecomastia-or.html<br><br>

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Causes and symptoms of gynecomastia or male breasts

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  1. Causes and symptoms of gynecomastia or male breasts

  2. What is gynecomastia in males? Gynecomastia is enlarged breast tissue in men. It is an enlargement the male breast gland because of a hormonal imbalance,

  3. but the appearance of enlargement may be described as pseudogynecomastia, a symptom causing an excess of fat which is deposited on the chest. It is a common and a temporary condition in boys going through puberty.

  4. What causes gynecomastia, or male breast enlargement? Gynecomastia is triggered due to decrease in the amount of the testosterone hormone in comparison to estrogen hormone.

  5. This decrease can be a condition that blocks the effect of or reduces testosterone hormone or a condition that increases your estrogen level.

  6. It is observed that, more than half of male infants are born with enlarged breasts due to the effects of their mother’s estrogen.

  7. Usually the swollen breast tissue goes away after a couple of weeks after birth.

  8. Gynecomastia causing hormonal changes during puberty is relatively common.

  9. This usually disappears on its own by 6 months or a year. In some cases, gynecomastia is developed during puberty continuing beyond 2 years and is referred to as persistent pubertal gynecomastia.

  10. Commonly known risk factors causing gynecomastia are; Adolescence, Older age, Use of anabolic steroids or androgens to improve athletic performance.

  11. This article is originally appeared on- http://healthfirstmagazine.blogspot.com/2017/05/causes-and-symptoms-of-gynecomastia-or.html

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