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ey0019.6-16 | Gender Incongruence: Wider impacts of gender affirming hormone (GAH) treatments | ESPEYB19

6.16. Mortality trends over five decades in adult transgender people receiving hormone treatment: a report from the Amsterdam cohort of gender dysphoria

Blok CJ de , CM Wiepjes , Velzen DM van , AS Staphorsius , NM Nota , LJ Gooren , BP Kreukels , Heijer M den

Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2021 Oct;9(10):663-670. PMID: 34481559, doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(21)00185-6. Brief Summary: This paper reports standardised mortality rates (SMR) between 1972 and 2018 in a large cohort of 2927 transgender women and 1641 transgender men from the Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria. It finds a higher SMR for transgender women compared with transgender men. </p...