• DOI:10.1586/eem.10.18
Corpus ID: 73253356

Endocrine treatment of transsexuals: assessment of cardiovascular risk factors

@article{Nakatsuka2010EndocrineTO,
  title={Endocrine treatment of transsexuals: assessment of cardiovascular risk factors},
  author={M. Nakatsuka},
  journal={Expert Review of Endocrinology \& Metabolism},
  year={2010},
  volume={5},
  pages={319 - 322}
}

• M. Nakatsuka
• Published 2010
• Medicine
• Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism

Gender identity disorder (GID) is characterized by strong and persistent cross-gender identification and by persistent discomfort with one’s anatomical sex. Transsexualism is considered to be the extreme end of the spectrum of GID, which is characterized by a pursuit of sex reassignment surgery. The recent information on the prevalence of the transsexual end of the GID spectrum from The Netherlands is one in 11,900 males and one in 30,400 females [101], although biological mechanisms of GID are… Expand