Metabolic Complications and Increased Cardiovascular Risks as a Result of Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Men with Prostate Cancer

Table 3

Effects of ADT on lipid metabolism.

	Duration	TC	TG	LDL	HDL
Smith et al. [25]	3 months	NS	NS	NS	NS
Dockery et al. [26]	3 months	⇑	NS	NS	⇑
Smith et al. [28]	12 weeks	⇑	⇑	NS	⇑
Braga-Basaria et al. [11]	12–101 months	⇑	NS	⇑	NS

NS: Nonsignificant; ⇑: Increased; TC: Total Cholesterol; TG: Triglycerides; LDL: Low density lipoprotein Cholesterol; HDL: High-density lipoprotein Cholesterol.