Comparison of Disease Severity and Ultrasonographic Abdominal Subcutaneous Fatty Tissue Thickness in Hirsute Women

The study conducted from October 2014 to March 2016 involved 144 women aged 18-50 and aimed to find a correlation between hirsutism scores and central obesity. The results showed that women with higher hirsutism scores were more likely to develop thicker subcutaneous abdominal fatty tissue and metabolic syndrome than those with moderate scores. The severe hirsutism group had higher means for fatty tissue thickness, weight, body mass index, waist circumferences, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, insulin, Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance, triglyceride, free androgen index, and total testosterone, and lower means for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and sex hormone-binding globulin. The existence of 1, 2, and 3 metabolic syndrome criteria, and diagnosis of metabolic syndrome were also more detected in the higher-score group. The most accompanying finding was polycystic ovary syndrome.