Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The transsexuals are persons that having born with a biological sex feel to belong to the opposite sex. To obtain the sexual characters opposite to his (her) biological sex they need treatment with cross-sex hormones.This treatment with sexual steroids can produce changes in cardiovascular risk factors (CRF). There has been described that hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent CRF that is modifiable by cross-sex hormonal treatment (CHT) in ...