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62nd Annual ESPE (ESPE 2024)

Liverpool, UK
16 Nov 2024 - 18 Nov 2024

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The 62nd ESPE Annual Meeting will now be taking place in Liverpool, UK.

Working Group Symposia

ESPE Working Group on Gender Incongruence

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Immunological effects of gender-affirming hormone treatment

Peckham Hannah

The exploration of sex differences in the human immune system and how these pertain to health- and disease-related outcomes is a growing field, with a steadily increasing number of papers published in this area (~5k per year in 2000 to ~50k per year in 2020). Cisgender females are generally known to mount stronger responses to most infections, including COVID-19 (Peckham et al, 2020), and more effective responses to many vaccines. However, cis-females are also at greater risk ...