Medication adherence and treatment patterns for hypogonadal patients treated with topical testosterone therapy: a retrospective medical claims analysis.

Introduction: There is limited information on adherence to topical testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) among hypogonadal men.

Aim: To determine adherence rates among men treated with topical testosterone gels and to examine factors that may influence adherence, including age, presence of a specific diagnosis, and index dose.

Methods: Included were 15,435 hypogonadal men, from the Thomson Reuters MarketScan Database, who had an initial topical testosterone prescription in 2009 and who were followed for 12 months.