Effects of gender affirming hormone therapy on body mass index in transgender individuals: A longitudinal cohort study

INTRODUCTION: Many transgender people take hormone therapy to affirm their gender identity. One potential long-term consequence of gender affirming hormone therapy is increased body mass index (BMI), which may be associated with metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and higher mortality. Only a...

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Autores principales: Suppakitjanusant, Pichatorn, Ji, Yuhan, Stevenson, Mary O., Chantrapanichkul, Panicha, Sineath, R. Craig, Goodman, Michael, Alvarez, Jessica A., Tangpricha, Vin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7358708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcte.2020.100230

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