Title of article Transgender Therapy Tied to Blood Pressure Changes
Key quotes regarding the effects on study participants born female
"April 19, 2021 --Transgenderpeople treated with gender-affirminghormone therapyshow distinctive changes inblood pressurethat begin soon after treatment starts and do not ease over years of treatment, according to the largest and longest observational study to look at the issue."
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"The take-away message for physicians is to monitor blood pressure both before and after starting hormone therapy in transgender patients, as over a third of transgender individuals had stage 1 hypertension before startinghormone therapy, and many had their blood pressure increase after starting hormone therapy."
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"In thestudy, published this weekin the journalHypertension, Katherine Banks, MD, of the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., and colleagues, followed 470 transgender adult patients for up to 5 years."
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"the systolic blood pressure levels in transgender males who were treated with testosterone increased"
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"The therapy has previously been linked to various heart problems, with evidence showing transgender men have as much as a 5-times greater risk ofheart attackvs.cisgenderwomen, the authors note."
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"Although the American Heart Association issued a2020 Scientific Statementaddressing the heart disease risk, evidence on the effects specifically on blood pressure in transgender patients has been inconsistent."
"For the new study, Banks and colleagues enrolled 247 transgender females and 223 transgender males who were treated between 2007 and 2015 at two medical centers in Washington. Of the patients, who had an average age of 27.8, about 27% were non-White and 16% were Latino."
"They had blood pressure measurements taken at the beginning of the study and at follow-up visits for up to 57 months after the start of gender-affirming hormone therapy.
"As many as 40% of transgender men had stage 1 hypertension after 11 to 21 months of hormone therapy."
Full source here: www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20210419/transgender-therapy-tied-to-blood-pressure-changes
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