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2. Feminizing hormone therapy - Wikipedia

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   In hormone therapy, trans women often experience slight weight gain as men generally carry higher levels of visceral fat compared to subcutaneous fat, and less fat overall compared to women. Over months and years, HRT causes the body to accumulate new fat in a feminine pattern ( gynoid fat ).

3. Gender-affirming hormone therapy - Wikipedia

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   Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), also called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or transgender hormone therapy, is a form of hormone therapy in which sex hormones and other hormonal medications are administered to transgender or gender nonconforming individuals for the purpose of more closely aligning their secondary sexual characteristics with their gender identity.

4. Estradiol (medication) - Wikipedia

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   [275] [276] However, the available evidence overall does not support the use of estradiol and other estrogens for improving sexual desire and function in women as of 2016. [276] An exception is the use of estrogens to treat vaginal atrophy. [276] Estrogen therapy has been proposed as a potential treatment for autism but clinical studies are ...

5. Estrogen (medication) - Wikipedia

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   [111] [112] Whereas the risk of cardiovascular death is 0.06 per 100,000 in women who are age 15 to 34 years, are taking a combined oral contraceptive, and do not smoke, this increases by 50-fold to 3.0 per 100,000 in women who are age 35 to 44 years, are taking a combined oral contraceptive, and do not smoke.

6. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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   Christine Derzko stated that the evidence supported the use of bioidentical estrogen plus progesterone, but since the trial was an observational cohort study rather than a randomized controlled trial that compared different types of hormones head-to-head, more data was required before concluding bioidentical hormones were safer and preferred ...

7. Pharmacodynamics of estradiol - Wikipedia

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   Estradiol is an estrogen, or an agonist of the nuclear estrogen receptors (ERs), the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) and the estrogen receptor beta (ERβ). [1] [2] [6] In one study, the EC 50 Tooltip half-maximal effective concentration value of estradiol for the human ERα was 50 pM (0.05 nM) and for the human ERβ was 200 pM (0.2 nM).