TABLE 3.
Analysis of websites found in which androstenedione may be acquired from the different countries.
Spain | Puerto Rico | Canada | United States | Russia | Ukraine | ||
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Characteristics of the web pages reviewed | Number of web pages reviewed | 220 | 225 | 134 | 119 | 126 | 102 |
Do not connect* | 25b | 25b | 12a,b | 5a | 17 b | 11a,b | |
Do not sell the product | 192 | 197 | 109 | 93 | 99 | 84 | |
Sell the product* | 3c | 3c | 13a,b | 21a | 10b | 7b | |
Also sell other products | 3 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 6 | 4 | |
Oxandrolone | 1 | 10 | 17 | 2 | |||
DHEA | 1 | 16 | 6 | 5 | |||
Type of web pages selling the product | Sports | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
Supermarket | |||||||
Pharmacy | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |||
Parapharmacy | 1 | ||||||
Dietary supplements | 1 | 1 | |||||
Laboratory | 1 | 1 | 12 | 17 | 2 | ||
Store | 1 | 2 | |||||
Shipping countries | Only the own country | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | |
Worldwide | 2 | 1 | 12 | 21 | 2 | ||
Several countries | |||||||
Prescription required | |||||||
Route of administration | Oral | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 |
Parenteral | |||||||
Other | 1 | 1 | 12 | 18 | 2 | ||
Recommended use of the product a | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
2 | 1 | a1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | ||
3 | 1 | 12 | |||||
No description | 14 | 1 |
*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 muscle mass and strength; 2.- increase testosterone levels; 3.- research.