Fung Kuen Koo, Rebecca Chen, Judith Fethney, Jay Balante, Grace Wong
Evaluating pre-and post-oral health literacy of undergraduate nursing students on an oral-systemic health learning intervention
Journal of dental education
stress echocardiography se important modality cardiovascular risk stratification obstructive coronary artery disease cad assessment binary sexbased parameters classically used interpretation studies even among transgender women tgw cad leading cause morbidity mortality population yet remains unclear whether tgw exhibit distinct stress testing profile cisgender counterparts using matched casecontrol study design compared echocardiographic stress testing profiles tgw n43 matched cisgender men cgm n84 cisgender women cgw n86 single center relevant data including demographics comorbidities cardiac testing data manually extracted patients charts prevalence hypertension dyslipidemia similar tgw cgw lower cgm p 003 009 respectively majority comorbidities lab values similar average tgw higher heart rates cgm p002 lower blood pressures cgm cgw p05 tgws double product metabolic equivalents similar among cgw lower cgm p016 p018 respectively echocardiography left ventricular enddiastolic endsystolic diameters among tgw similar cgw lower cgms p023 p018 respectively measures systolic diastolic function except exercise mitral valve ee ratio lower tgw cgw p029 largely similar among three groups difference wall motion score index therefore difference percentage positive se tests study shows first time tgw se profile distinct cisgender counterparts larger multicenter prospective studies warranted characterize se profile tgw