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Table 6 Percentage of participants with disagreements between physicians reported medical data and self-response in DSD questionnaires

From: Clinical evaluation study of the German network of disorders of sex development (DSD)/intersexuality: study design, description of the study population, and data quality

Compared items

Disagreement

 

Number

%

Current height (adolescents/adults, deviation > 5 cm)

3

1.8

Weight (adolescents/adults, deviation > 5 kg

8

4.7

Mode of delivery

9

2.0

Medication during pregnancy

43

9.8

Week of gestation at birth

87

19.8

Length at birth, deviation > 4 cm

8

1.8

Birth weight, deviation > 400 g

6

1.4

Age at the time of presumptive diagnosis

  

- deviation ≥ 3 months

43

9.8

- deviation ≥ 6 months

34

7.8

- deviation ≥ 12 months

19

4.4

- deviation ≥ 24 months

13

3.0

- deviation ≥ 48 months

7

1.6

Signs and symptoms leading to the suspected diagnosis of DSD (varying for different symptoms)

2 – 89

0.5 – 20.3

Karyotype

36

8.2

Current diagnosis

48

10.9

Number of operations (by adolescents)

13

21.0

Surgical treatment

15

3.4

Type of the surgical treatment (varying for treatments)

3 – 67

0.7 – 15.3

Previous hormone therapy

96

21.9

Current hormone therapy

35

7.8