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Supplementary Table 1 Characteristics of male patients with hypogonadism with and without rheumatic/autoimmune disease (RAD)

From: High frequency of association of rheumatic/autoimmune diseases and untreated male hypogonadism with severe testicular dysfunction

Characteristic Patients with RAD (N = 8) Patients without RAD (N = 5) P a
Age (years) 27.5 ± 9.5 22.2 ± 6.2 NS
Body mass index 23.4 ± 2.1 23.8 ± 4.5 NS
Prolactin (ng/ml) 8.8 ± 7.1 18.6 ± 8.9 NS
Testosterone (ng/ml) 1.0 ± 0.7 2.7 ± 1.2 0.0005
Estradiol-17β (pg/ml) 10.2 ± 8.9 13.5 ± 18.0 NS
Estradiol-17β/testosterone 9.9 ± 10.3 4.8 ± 6.1 NS
  1. Values for data are mean ± standard deviation. NS = not significant. aMann-Whitney U test.
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