Gender Minority Stress, Testosterone, and Blood Pressure Responses to Stress in Transgender and Nonbinary Adults.

Studied

An observational study examined relationships between testosterone, gender-minority stress and blood-pressure responses to brief physical and psychological stress.

Who / model

Twenty-four transgender or nonbinary adults assigned female at birth participated: 12 used testosterone and 12 did not.

Studied dose & schedule

Dose and schedule have not yet been extracted for this summary.

Found

Resting blood pressure was similar between groups. Greater minority stress was associated with a smaller response to psychological stress. Higher testosterone was associated with a larger diastolic response; its systolic association was less certain. These relationships were absent for resting pressure and cold-stress responses.

Limits

Study limitations were not stated in the abstract. Methodological quality has not been appraised.

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