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Table 1 Age and gender for patients with acromegaly receiving octreotide or lanreotide

From: Treatment adherence and persistence with long-acting somatostatin analog therapy for the treatment of acromegaly: a retrospective analysis

 

All patients

Patients with a 180-day washout period

Therapy

Variable

N

Mean

SD

N

Mean

SD

Octreotide

Age at first injection (yr)

1127

50.6

11.1

545

51.4

11.2

% of male patients

1127

45.9%

0.5

545

48.1%

0.5

Lanreotide

Age at first injection (yr)

181

45.9

11.9

118

45.7

11.7

% of male patients

181

45.9%

0.5

118

44.9%

0.5

  1. N sample size, SD standard deviation