"Data indicates that West Virginia, which is wholly in the Appalachian region, has one of the highest per capita rates of transgender youth in the country, so we sought to study the burden of cardiovascular disease risks in the transgender population in this region," Ezeh explained.
Trans participants in the study were more than six times more likely to use tobacco and almost four times more likely to have prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes, Medical Xpress reports. While cisgender participants were just slightly more likely to experience obesity than trans participants, trans men were 13 times more likely to experience obesity than trans women. They were also nearly 3.5 times more likely to have high cholesterol than trans women.
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