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BURDEN OF CORONARY DISEASE IN TRANSGENDER WOMEN WITH AND WITHOUT HIV
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CROI 2023 Feb 20-23
JE Lake1, H Feng2, H Miao2, P Debroy1, A Dobs3, S Haberlen3, L Kingsley4, J Margolick3, K McGowan3, FJ Palella5, W Post3, MD Witt6, S Bhasin7, M Budoff6, TT Brown3
1UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX USA; 2UTHealth School of Public Health Houston, TX USA; 3Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; 4University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 5Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; 6The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA, USA; 7Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
The main finding is trans women with suppressed testosterone has less non-calcified plaque and stenosis of the arteries. This suggests a potentially protective effect of estrogen for the trans women on these measurements of cardiac disease.
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