Guidelines from the Endocrine Society endorse transgender hormone treatment but say it should not be given before puberty begins. At that point, the guidelines recommend puberty-blocking drugs until age 16, then lifelong sex-changing hormones with monitoring for potential health risks. Mental health pr...
C.H. Gravholt, R.W. Naeraa, S. Fisker, J.S. Christiansen, Body composition and physical fitness are major determinants of the growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor axis aberrations in adult Turner’s syndrome, with important modulations by treatment with 17 beta-estradiol. J. Clin. Endo...
Cross-sex hormone treatment does not change sex-sensitive cognitive performance in gender identity disorder patients. Psychiatry Res. 137, 161--174.Haraldsen IR, Egeland T, Haug E, Finset A, Opjordsmoen S (2005) Cross-sex hormone treatment does not change sex- sensitive cognitive performance ...
Referrals for gender dysphoria (GD), characterized by a distressful incongruence between gender identity and at-birth assigned sex, are steadily increasing. The underlying neurobiology, and the mechanisms of the often-beneficial cross-sex hormone treatment are unknown. Here, we test hypothesis that ow...
Sex hormone levels and change in left ventricular structure among men and post-menopausal women: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). Maturitas. 2018;108:37–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2017.11.006. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Meyer S, van der Meer P, ...
Effect of growth hormone treatment on adult height in peripubertal children with idiopathic short stature: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled t... GH is often used to treat children with idiopathic short stature despite the lack of definitive, long-term studies of efficacy. We performe...
We examined the nonlinear time trend of hormone levels by feeding methods (see Figs 1 and 2) and wanted to know if there is a specific threshold/time point where the hormone levels had a significant change. However, no statistically significant threshold was found. The reason might be the ...
2. Sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG): a hepatokine mainly produced by the liver 3. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) crosstalk 4. Perspectives in the use of SHBG as a new therapeutic lead in NAFLD and MetS treatment Ethics approval and consent to par...
Gender affirming hormone therapy may be associated with a change in migraine and unique risks (including ischemic stroke with high dose estrogen). Summary There are key differences in migraine epidemiology and symptomatology, thought to be driven at least in part by sex hormones which influence ...
This hormone pattern denotes a primary testicular damage, which is not common to critical patients that more often have a down-regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-testicular axis with both low T and LH. Noteworthy, ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are both expressed in the testis with ACE2 strongly ...