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GEnder Dysphoria Treatment in Sweden
Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT02518009
Purpose
Gender dysphoria (DSM-5) or transsexualism (ICD10) is a condition in which a person's feeling
of gender identity is not congruent with the physical body. The hormonal treatment includes
inhibition of one's own sex hormone production followed by treatment with testosterone or
estrogen levels that are normal for the opposite sex. Seen as experimental model, this is a
process that provides an opportunity to study the sex hormone dependent influences that
explain differences in morbidity in men and women respectively. The differences that are
especially significant but not well known is 1) metabolic changes in the regulation of
glucose homeostasis and lipid metabolism 2) regulation of vascular function and structural
effects on the heart and arteries 3) regulation of skeletal muscle mass and fat tissue 4)
morphological and functional effects on discrete areas of the brain.
Therefore, the investigators will follow these patients for a year to study how the heart,
blood vessels, brain, and risk factors for cardiovascular disease affected by altered sex
hormone patterns and studying what happens in the muscles and fat in both the short and long
term with respect to particular gene expression and epigenetic changes and link it to
metabolic changes and body composition.
Official Title
Phenotype Modulations Following Treatment With Contrary Sex Hormones
Stanford Investigator(s)
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Otherwise healthy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Infectious disease
- Treatment with Warfarin or other anti coagulants.
- History of cardiovascular disease.
- Serious illness or mental disorder.
- Diabetes type 1
- Language difficulties
Intervention(s):
other: Genetic men treated with estrogen
other: Genetic women treated with androgen
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Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
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Stanford,
CA
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