Scientists at Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI), collaborating with clinicians at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh report two cases in which young transgender women attempted to recover their fertility after starting and stopping gender affirming medications. The study, published today in Pediatrics, found that one transgender woman was able to produce viable…
Hormone Therapy; Epicardial adipose tissue accumulation may slow down in women who were recently menopausal; also were taking oral conjugated equine estrogens, according to a secondary analysis of the keeps trial published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Women who were taking transdermal 17-estradiol had an increase in coronary artery calcium progression that…
The major published clinical guidelines for the management of hypothyroidism and osteoporosis are not uniformly consistent and may be a significant contributor to variability of clinical care delivered by endocrinologists, in addition to other factors; such as physician experience, physician and patient perceptions, and patient comorbidities. Together with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism and osteoporosis are the…
Children may be at increased risk for malignant thyroid nodules compared with adults, and this may call for new treatment strategies for some types of nodules based on age, according to findings published in Thyroid. “The rarity of pediatric thyroid nodules may limit the frequency with which pediatric pathologists interpret thyroid cytology; so leading to variability…
Scientist have identified a link between exposure to high levels of estrogen sex hormones in the womb and the likelihood of developing autism. The findings are published today in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. The discovery adds further evidence to support the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism first proposed 20 years ago. Levels of estrogen In…
Hormone In Women; Post-traumatic stress can be a crippling disorder, interfering with a person’s ability to function on a daily basis. And although scientists don’t know why, it occurs twice as frequently in women as in men. Researchers have found links between the amount of an estrogen hormone in a woman’s system and her ability…
Testosterone treatment; Doctors have long mulled over using low doses of the hormone testosterone as a way to improve sexual function in some women, but evidence on its safety and efficacy has been somewhat lacking until now. A paper published in the journal The Lancet on Thursday found testosterone to be effective for postmenopausal women with low sexual…
After years of studying the twists and turns of hormone replacement therapy among women, Montreal-based epidemiologist Christel Renoux, MD, PhD, shifted her focus to its use in aging men a path that’s proving no less controversial. “There is a passionate debate around testosterone replacement therapy; you have strong; so strong believers it is really having…
The endocrine system the system of glands which produce and secrete different types of hormones directly into the bloodstream to regulate the body’s growth, metabolism, and sexual development & function. Hormones! Those things that make teenagers moody and miserable, and they cause growth spurts and acne; also they can make a perfectly normal student totally…
In this study writer use to think of hormone imbalance as a “women’s issue,” one that was only really relevant in the days before a woman’s period (hello, PMS) and during pregnancy. But these days, we know that hormones rule our entire lives and are greatly responsible for how they both men and women feel…
A genetic predisposition to higher serum parathyroid hormone concentration is not an independent risk factor for developing coronary artery disease, according to findings from a Mendelian randomization analysis. “The results of this Mendelian randomization study showed that genetic predisposition to higher [serum parathyroid hormone] concentrations is not associated with CAD or other common cardiovascular diseases,”…
Aging men with low testosterone levels who take testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) are at a slightly greater risk of experiencing an ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), or myocardial infarction, especially during the first two years of use, reports a study appearing in The American Journal of Medicine, published by Elsevier. The findings confirm concerns…