Parameters of Obesity in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
January 2017
in “
Journal of rare disease research & treatment
”
TLDR Obesity is common in PCOS patients and early treatment is important for their heart and metabolic health.
In 2016, Di-Fei Lu and Xiao-Hui Guo from Peking University First Hospital conducted a study on 400 subjects to examine the relationship between obesity and Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). They found that obesity is a common comorbidity with PCOS, with a rate of 32%. Parameters such as body-mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), percentage of body fat (PBF), and lipid accumulation product (LAP) index were significantly increased in PCOS patients. For example, in a study of 300 Chinese women with PCOS and 110 controls, the cut-off points of WC, BMI, and PBF were 80.5cm, 26.6kg/m2, and 29%, respectively. The study concluded that early diagnosis and intervention for obesity in PCOS patients is crucial for metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes. However, the standards of obesity parameters to screen or diagnose PCOS are yet to be established.
