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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Myocardial Infarction in the Transgender Population
Talal Alzahrani
1 ,
Tran Nguyen
1 ,
Angela Ryan
1 ,
Ahmad Dwairy
1 ,
James McCaffrey
1 ,
Raza Yunus
1 ,
Joseph Forgione
1 ,
Joseph Krepp
1 ,
Christian Nagy
1 ,
Ramesh Mazhari
1 ,
Jonathan Reiner
1
April 2019
April 2019
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Abstract
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 transgender population had a significantly higher
rate of CVD risk factors without a significant increase in overall CVD morbidity and
mortality. These studies are limited by their small sample sizes and their predominant
focus on younger transgender populations. With a larger sample size and inclusion
of broader age range, our study aims to provide insight into the association between
being transgender and cardiovascular risk factors, as well as myocardial infarction.