Table 2.
Correlations coefficients (r) between testosterone, PSA levels and the age of subjects; BMI; waist-to-hip ratio from 119 middle-aged healthy men from the general population.
| Variables | Age (years) |
BMI (kg/cm2) |
Wait-to-hip ratio |
Testosterone (nmol/L) |
PSA (pg/L) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| r | p | r | p | r | p | r | p | rp | ||
| Testosterone (nmol/l) | – | 0.10 | – | 0.01 | – | 0.08 | – | – | 0.05 0.6 | |
| PSA (pg/l) | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.60 | – 0 | |
| 0.30 | 0.01 | 0.20 | – | |||||||
Statistical analysis was done using Spearman's correlations rank. P-values below 0.05 are considered statistically significant.