Abstract:Objective To explore the impacts of androgen deficiency on quality of life of male. Methods A total of 1,166 male participants were collected from Zunyi city by stratified cluster sampling method. Basic information and quality of life scale (SF-36) were taken from each subject, and physical measurement and serum hormone test were also required. Four hundred and twenty-eight subjects with history of disease were excluded, remaining 738 qualified subjects brought into the analysis. Multiple linear regression was performed to filtrate the influence factors of quality of life in physical component summary, mental component summary and total score. The differences in filtrated factors were compared by analysis of variance (ANOVA) between groups. Results Multiple linear regression revealed that testosterone secretion index was in independent association with mental component summary score among those 4 androgen criteria brought into the analysis (b = 10.880, P= 0.033). In addition, indexes of age, vasectomy and education level were independently associated with physical component summary score respectively; vasectomy, BMI and marriage status were independently associated with mental component summary score respectively; age, vasectomy, education level and BMI were independently associated with total score respectively (all of the above P< 0.05). The ANOVA results revealed that the differences of testosterone secretion index were statistically significant in physical,emotional and social functions; and the score of hormone deficiency group was lower than that of normal group. Conclusions A better ability of testosterone secretion, a higher BMI and a higher education level might be protective factors of quality of life of male; while advanced age and history of vasectomy might be the risk factors.