Recent reports suggest that about six-tenths of a percent of the US population, or 1.4 million people, identify as transgender. Transgender individuals are people whose personal and gender identity are different from the gender they were thought to be at birth.
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information about the health status of this group has been hard to come by, although research is growing.
In a recent Health Affairs article, Landon Hughes and coauthors used private insurance claims from 2001 to 2019 to document the morbidity of privately insured, transgender individuals as compared to cisgender
people, or those whose personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.
The authors reported that transgender people are at a greater risk for morbidity than their cisgender counterparts and are also at significantly higher risk for several chronic cardiovascular and neurological conditions.
Hughes broke down this research further on a recent episode of A Health Podyssey.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Maninder Kahlon and Raj Patel explain how the food industry is a substantial driver of poor health.
Elevating Voices: Hispanic Heritage Month:In an overview paper for the Borders,
Immigrants & Health theme issue, Lucía Félix Beltrán, Alexander Ortega, and coauthors discussed health policy challenges posed by shifting demographics and health trends among immigrants to the United States.
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