Science Question
My osteology class brought up an interesting question: How does HRT interact with osteoporosis? Hormonal levels have been associated with the problem in post-menopausal cis women, but I don't know if research has been done on trans people who have undergone hormone-related procedures, including orchiectomies or hysterectomies as well as HRT
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Transsexualism and osteoporosis.
Schlatterer K, Auer DP, Yassouridis A, von Werder K, Stalla GK.
Dept. of Endocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
The aim of this study was to investigate whether and to what extent our regime of cross-gender hormone replacement therapy might influence osteoporosis development in transsexual patients. We found that after long-term therapy the bone densities of our cross-gender hormone-treated transsexual groups (10 male-to-female and 10 female-to-male) did not show significant differences compared to those of the corresponding biological sex. Moreover, the bone-density during therapy pointed out very little variability and that independent of the gender-alteration (transsexuality-direction) and the age of the transsexuals. Our results indicate that for transsexual patients treated with cross-gender hormone replacement therapy the risk of developing osteoporosis is low.
Publication Types:
Clinical Trial
PMID: 9792472 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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