Trans women taking hormones ‘up to 95 per cent more likely to suffer heart disease’
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Trans women taking hormones ‘up to 95 per cent more likely to suffer heart disease’

The Telegraph  

Trans women taking hormones are up to 95 per cent more likely to suffer heart disease, a new study has found. Researchers found that trans women – people born male who identify as women – taking gender-affirming hormones are almost twice as likely to suffer from any cardiovascular disease as men. People who were “assigned male at birth” and taking oestrogen as a trans woman, were 93 per cent more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease than men and 73 per cent more likely than women. Higher risk of type 2 diabetes Trans men, who were “assigned female at birth”, but were taking testosterone were 63 per cent more likely to have some form of heart disease than women, and more than double as likely than men.

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Sex hormone therapy could cause heart issues in transgender people
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Sex hormone therapy could cause heart issues in transgender people

India Today  

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