Pre-Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Polymenorrhoea as New Facets of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Evidence from a Single Center Data Set

September 2023 in “ Clinical Endocrinology ”

Mohd Ashraf Ganie, Aafia Rashid, Mohammad Salem Baba, Mohammad Afzal Zargar, Imtiyaz Ahmad Wani, Sobia Nisar, Ishfaq Ahmad Wani, Syed Douhath, Mukesh Sriwastawa, Mohd Ishaq Geer, Mir Mohd Asrar, Rintu Kutum, Saqib Hassan, Shahid Anis Khan, Wajid Rafi, Dil Afroz Bhat, Wasia Showkat, Tajali Sahar, Naseer A. Choh, Rabia Khurshid, Syed Mudassar, Zafar A. Shah, Iram Shabir, Sanjeed Ahmad Sofi, Nandita Gupta, Imran Hafeez, Vishnubatla Sreenivas

polycystic ovary syndrome PCOS polymenorrhoea oligomenorrhoea hirsutism hyperandrogenism oligo-amenorrhoea polycystic ovarian morphology metabolic syndrome HA OA PCOM

Studysummary This study suggests revising PCOS diagnostic criteria to integrate the polymenorrhoea subcategory due to shared metabolic dysfunctions with oligomenorrhoea.

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