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Table 4 Illustrating the variety of studies reporting favourable effects of DHEA/DHEAS supplementation in clinical pathologies

From: Central intracrine DHEA synthesis in ageing-related neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration: therapeutic potential?

Disease state

References

Autoimmune disease

 Systemic lupus erythematosus

[219,220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227]

Metabolic disease

 Hypercholesterolemia

[228]

 Metabolic syndrome

[229]

Genetic diseases

 Hereditary angioedema

[230]

Ageing-associated

 Advanced age

[231, 232]

 Osteoporosis

[233, 234]

Endocrine disorders

 Hypopituitarism

[235,236,237,238]

 Adrenal insufficiency/Addison’s disease

[239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246]