Diabetes and gender incongruence: frequent mental health issues but comparable metabolic control - a DPV registry study.

ABSTRACT:

Context

The condition when a person's gender identity does not match the sex assigned at birth is called gender incongruence (GI). Numbers of GI people seeking medical care increased tremendously over the last decade. Diabetes mellitus is a severe and lifelong disease. GI combined with diabetes may potentiate into a burdensome package for affected people.

Objective

The study aimed to characterize people with GI and diabetes from an extensive standardized registry, the Prospective Diabetes Follow-up Registry (DPV), and to identify potential metabolic and psychological burdens.

Methods

We compared demographic and clinical registry data of persons with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and GI to those without GI and used propensity score matching (1:4) with age, diabetes duratio

SUBMITTER: Boettcher C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10841572 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature