L E Robinson, E K Webster, M C Whitt-Glover, T G Ceaser, S Alhassan
Effectiveness of pre-school- and school-based interventions to impact weight-related behaviours in African American children and youth: a literature review
Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
transgender care shifting academic nonacademic settings leading use common immunoassay compared sophisticated mass spectrometry methods monitor estradiol testosterone genderaffirming hormone therapy gaht type assay influence results significant implications clinical decision making evidence gap present recommendations regarding assay needed monitor gaht present study aimed summarize current evidence evaluate immunoassay estradiol testosterone concentrations transgender people visiting nonacademic hospital gaht clinical practice guidelines gaht scientific literature assay methodologies screened summarized laboratory medical data 252 patients visited transgender outpatient clinic maasstad hospital gaht 2020 2022 retrospectively analyzed research showed used clinical practice guidelines gaht provide hormonal target values without recommending preferred method comprehensive literature search agreement immunoassay mass spectrometry showed substantial heterogeneity results retrospective analysis immunoassay measured data transgender people showed hormonal changes gaht expected medication used demonstrate laboratory monitoring gaht nonacademic hospital done safely immunoassay cases cases clinical observation discordant hormonal results sophisticated methods need deployed best practice model proposed transgender care nonacademic hospitals