TABLE 1.
Spain | Puerto Rico | Canada | United States | Russia | Ukraine | ||
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Characteristics of the web pages reviewed | Number of web pages reviewed | 190 | 207 | 102 | 115 | 115 | 131 |
Do not connect * | 25b | 62a | 45a | 26b | 52a | 9b | |
Do not sell the product | 66 | 86 | 37 | 50 | 13 | 24 | |
Sell the product* | 99b | 59 a, c | 20a | 39 c, d | 50 b, d | 98 | |
Also sell other products* | 16 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | |
DHEA | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||
Androstenedione | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |||
Type of web pages selling the product | Sports | 60 | 51 | 8 | 28 | 44 | 91 |
Supermarket | |||||||
Pharmacy | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
Parapharmacy | 8 | ||||||
Dietary supplements | 19 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Laboratory | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
Store | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |
Shipping countries | Only the own country | 48 | 24 | 12 | 4 | 40 | 94 |
Worldwide | 42 | 21 | 6 | 33 | 3 | 3 | |
Several countries | 9 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | |
Prescription required | 3 | 5 | |||||
Route of administration | Oral | 99 | 59 | 18 | 36 | 50 | 97 |
Parenteral | 1 | 2 | |||||
Other | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Recommended use of the product a | 1 | 92 | 48 | 12 | 35 | 49 | 81 |
2 | 2 | 22 | 4 | 18 | 5 | 21 | |
3 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 2 | 8 | ||
4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
6 | 2 | 3 | |||||
No description | 6 | 9 | 15 |
*Significant differences (Chi-square test, p < 0.05). Each letter of the superscript denotes a subset whose proportions do not differ significantly from each other (p < 0.05).
1. Sport: increase in muscle mass; increased strength, endurance and performance; 2. Burns fat (to lose body fat); 3. Hormonal activity: increased growth hormone; 4. Increased appetite, weight gain in some pathologies; 5. Relief of bone pain, improves wellbeing; 6. Research.