Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Sex steroid hormones play a key role in bone health, however medical therapies for gender dysphoria lead to hormonal changes.Purpose: Understanding the change in bone mass and body composition is extremely important, because this treatment will be carried out over a long period of timeMethods: In a prospective study, we included 19 transgender men (female-to-male trans persons) before treatment and after 1 year of tre...

Introduction: Effects of prior exposure to testosterone (T) during puberty on the performance of transgender women (TW) in estrogen therapy undergoing physical effort are not known, mainly about cardiopulmonary capacity (CPC). Objectives: To evaluate CPC and muscle strength in TW undergoing long-term gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT). Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 15 TW (34.2±5.2 yo), 13 cisgender men (CM) and 14 cisgender women (CW). TW were i...