There\u2019s new evidence that people taking hormones for gender\ntransition may have a higher risk of cardiovascular problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hints from previous\nhormone studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Previous research has indicated that hormone therapy in\ngeneral raises cardiovascular risk. For example, menopausal women taking\nestrogen and progestin had a 41% greater risk of stroke, a 29% greater risk of\na heart attack and a 100% greater risk of blood clots. According to estimates\nfrom the National Institutes of Health, estrogen by itself raises the risk of\nstroke by 39% and the risk of blood clots by 47%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With these increased risk factors in mind, a new study from\nAmsterdam University Medical Center set out to determine if hormone therapy\nduring gender transitioning also raises the risk of cardiovascular problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hormones during\ngender transition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The team looked at the medical records of 3,875 people who\nreceived hormone therapy for gender transitioning between 1972 and 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 1,358 transgender men had an average age of 23 and\nreceived testosterone therapy. The men were clinically followed for an average\nof 8 years after hormone therapy began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2,517 transgender women had an average age of 30 and\nreceived just estrogen or estrogen and androgen suppressors. The women were\nclinically followed for an average of 9 years after hormone therapy began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The findings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking at cardiovascular issues, including strokes, blood\nclots and heart attacks, the scientists found that trans women were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 more than twice as likely to have a stroke (compared to\ncis women)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 almost twice as likely to have a stroke (compared to cis\nmen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 five times more likely to develop blood clots (compared to\ncis women)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 4.5 times more likely to develop blood clots (compared to\ncis men)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 more than twice as likely have had a heart attack\n(compared to cis women)<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, trans men were more than three times more\nlikely to have a heart attack than cis men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the team didn\u2019t account for risk factors like\nsmoking, diet, exercise and stress, they theorize that hormone therapy is\nprobably to blame for the increased cardiovascular risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s new evidence that people taking hormones for gender transition may have a higher risk of cardiovascular problems. Hints from previous hormone studies Previous research has indicated that hormone therapy in general raises cardiovascular risk. For example, menopausal women taking estrogen and progestin had a 41% greater risk of stroke, a 29% greater risk of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,690],"tags":[977,827,978,719],"class_list":["post-13374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-wellness","tag-gender-transition","tag-heart-health","tag-hormone","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}