Clinical Endocrinology News (11/2, Splete) reports, “Youth identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual were significantly less likely than were their peers to communicate with a physician or utilize health care in the past 12 months,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data from 4,256 participants in the third wave (10th grade) of adolescents in Healthy Passages, a longitudinal, observational cohort study of diverse public school students.” The study also revealed that “the most common conditions for which LGB youth did not seek care were sexually transmitted infections, contraception, and substance use.” The findings were published online in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Lesbian, gay, bisexual youth miss out on health care “Heidi Splete, Clinical Endocrinology News, November 2, 2021