Research Article
Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Risk in Young Healthy Men Treated with Injectable Testosterone
Table 2
Characteristics of Low Testosterone (T) Center patients in comparison to controls from other registry populations.
| | Low T Centers | Kaiser Permanente | Northern Manhattan Registry | Comments |
| Male (%) | 100 | 62 | 45 | |
| <55 years (%) | 87 | Not reported | 74 | Kaiser reported age as 69 ± 14 |
| >56 years (%) | 13 | Not reported | 26 | 3% Low T > 65 |
| White (%) | Not reported | 67 | 22 | Low T Centers did not collect ethnicity data |
| Black (%) | Not reported | 7 | 13 | |
| Hispanic (%) | Not reported | 9 | 64 | |
| Asian and others (%) | Not reported | 17 | 1 | |
| Hypertension (%) | 15 | 76 | Not reported | N Manhattan registry has high percentage of minorities which will imply higher rates of HTN |
| DM (%) | 4 | 32 | Not reported | N Manhattan registry has high percentage of minorities which will imply higher rates of DM |
| Hyperlipidemia (%) | 12 | 80 | Not reported | N Manhattan registry has high percentage of minorities which will imply higher rates of HLD |
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