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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiol Clin. 2020 Jun;38(2):311–326. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2020.01.009

Table 4.

Interpreting selected lab tests in transgender women using feminizing hormone therapy

Lab measure Lower limit of normal Upper limit of normal
Creatinine Not defined Male value
Hemoglobin/Hematocrit Female value Male value

Adapted from UCSF Transgender Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco. Guidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People; 2nd edition. Overview of feminizing hormone therapy. Deutsch MB, ed. June 2016. Available at transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines; with permission.