Beneficial Effects of Testosterone Therapy on Functional Capacity, Cardiovascular Parameters, and Quality of Life in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

Table 3

Improvement in 6MWD following testosterone therapy.

Item	𝐹-index*	𝑃 value^†
Testosterone therapy	4.402	0.045
Advanced age	5.135	0.031
Body mass index	6.035	0.020
Diabetes mellitus	1.786	0.192
Hypertension	0.064	0.803
Hyperlipidemia	0.113	0.739
Cigarette smoking	1.203	0.282
NYHA classification	1.592	0.217

Adjusted for baseline variables using the repeated measure ANOVA test.
^∗𝐹-index: the interpretation of the 𝐹-index (indicating the level of variability between subjects) is considered significant if it is higher than 0.40.
^†𝑃 values of 0.05 or less for each variable indicated discrepancy in the time trend of the variable between the two groups.