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bar.<BR>_________________________________<BR><BR>Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A
Multifaceted Disease from Adolescence to Adult Age<BR><BR>Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences 1092 (1),
158–174.<BR><BR>http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1196/annals.1365.014<BR><BR>In
young women with PCOS, hyperandrogenism, menses irregularities, and insulin
resistance may occur together. Hyperandrogenism and infertility represent
the major complaints of PCOS in adult fertile age. In addition, obesity and
metabolic syndrome may affect more than half these women. Later in life, it
becomes clear that the association of obesity, particularly abdominal obesity,
and PCOS renders affected women more susceptible to develop type 2 diabetes.
Little is known about ovarian morphology and androgen production in women with
PCOS after menopause. Some studies found that morphological ultrasonographic
features consistent with polycystic ovaries are very common in postmenopausal
women, and that these features are associated with higher than normal
testosterone levels and metabolic alterations.
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