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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Urol Rep. 2008 May;9(3):197–202. doi: 10.1007/s11934-008-0035-y

Table 1.

Rates of incident diabetes, coronary heart disease, and myocardial infarction in untreated and GnRH agonist–treated men with prostate cancer

Study Events per 1000 person-years

Incident diabetes Incident coronary heart disease Myocardial infarction

No treatment 20.9 61.3 10.9
GnRH agonist 29.1 (P < 0.001) 72.4 (P < 0.001) 13.5 (P < 0.001)

GnRH—gonadotropin-releasing hormone. (Adapted from Keating et al. [5••].)