Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Myocardial Infarction in the Transgender Population

• Published in: Circulation Cardiovascular quality and outcomes Vol. 12; no. 4; p. e005597
• Main Authors: Alzahrani, Talal, Nguyen, Tran, Ryan, Angela, Dwairy, Ahmad, McCaffrey, James, Yunus, Raza, Forgione, Joseph, Krepp, Joseph, Nagy, Christian, Mazhari, Ramesh, Reiner, Jonathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2019
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Cardiovascular Diseases - diagnosis; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Health Surveys; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Minority Health; Myocardial Infarction - diagnosis; Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology; Prognosis; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Sex Factors; Transgender Persons; Transsexualism - diagnosis; Transsexualism - epidemiology; United States - epidemiology; United States; transgender persons; cardiovascular disease; risk factors; morbidity; myocardial infarction
• ISSN: 1941-7713; 1941-7705; 1941-7705
• DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.119.005597

As of 2016, ≈1.4 million people in the United States identify as transgender. Despite their growing number and increasing specific medical needs, there has been a lack of research on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD risk factors in this population. Recent studies have reported that the transgend...