Figure 1.
E2: estradiol, PRL: prolactin, fT4: free T4, fT3: free T3.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the entire cohort as median, and minimum and maximum in parenthesis.
Table 2.
Characteristics as median, and minimum and maximum in parenthesis, according to the two groups defined by using the threshold of serum total T of 300 ng/dL for establishing T deficiency (the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test was used for comparisons).
Table 3.
Number of patients (n) and relative percentages (%) of patients according to age and total T serum levels.
Table 4.
Characteristics as median, and minimum and maximum in parenthesis, according to the serum total T threshold of 300 ng/dL in tandem with the LH serum levels (the comparison among groups was performed by nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test followed by the Dunn's multiple-comparison post hoc test when a significant difference was found in order to establish differences among each group).
Figure 2.
Gonadal status according to serum total T threshold of 300 ng/dL and LH normal range.
Table 5.
Characteristics of the 247 patients who underwent International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-15) questionnaire (the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test was used for comparisons since most of the variables resulted not normally distributed at Kolmogorov-Smirnov test).
Table 6.
Characteristics of the 247 patients who filled the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-15) questionnaire according to the threshold of serum total T of 300 ng/dL used to define T deficiency (the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test was used for comparisons since most of the variables resulted not normally distributed at Kolmogorov-Smirnov test).
Figure 3.
Comparison among groups according to categories of hypogonadism.
Serum estradiol (E2), (a), E2/T ratio (b), BMI (c), and VAT (d) in HIV infected men with eugonadism (normal T and normal LH) compared to compensated hypogonadism (normal T and elevated LH), secondary hypogonadism (low T and low/normal LH), and primary hypogonadism (low T and elevated LH). The line and the whiskers on the box plots represents median and Standard Errors, respectively.
Table 7.
Stepwise linear multiple regression estimating predictive factors for serum total T in the HIV-infected men.