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This study reports significant variability in PCOS symptoms across women attending infertility, gynecology, endocrine, and dermatology clinics, highlighting the importance of recognizing diverse presentations and associated health risks like impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes.

This study found an association between total ovarian volume, pre-antral follicle number, total follicular volume, and some biochemical indices of PCOS, but not with ovarian stromal volume.

This study found that Indian women with PCOS following a vegetarian diet had higher pro-inflammatory and lower anti-inflammatory marker levels compared to age and BMI-matched non-vegetarian counterparts.

This study found that women with polycystic ovary syndrome had significantly higher serum and intrafollicular levels of anti-Müllerian hormone compared to normovulatory women, indicating a potential marker for ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome risk.

This article discusses the complexities of diagnosing and managing polycystic ovary syndrome, highlighting the challenges related to fertility treatment criteria, insulin resistance, and long-term health implications, but reports no new clinical findings.

This review discusses the complex links between polycystic ovary syndrome, insulin resistance, and potential metabolic risks starting in adolescence, noting the need for early screening and treatment but reports no new clinical results.

This study found that the VEGF +405G/C polymorphism may be an inheritable risk factor for polycystic ovary syndrome in south Indian women.

This study found that increased serum A4A levels were associated with more severe polycystic ovary syndrome phenotypes and could be a useful marker for biochemical hyperandrogenemia.

In this study, daughters of women with PCOS and control daughters showed no significant differences in metabolic and hormonal parameters, but more PCOS daughters exhibited hirsutism at advanced pubertal stages.

This study developed and validated a 50-item questionnaire, the PCOSQ-50, to effectively assess the quality of life in Iranian women with polycystic ovary syndrome, addressing aspects often missed by previous questionnaires.

This paper summarizes proceedings from a PCOS Special Interest Group, reporting recent advances in the understanding of PCOS follicular abnormalities, associated cardiovascular risks, and dermatological issues, but does not present new clinical findings.

This study reported that both drospirenone and chlormadinone acetate oral contraceptives had similar beneficial effects on clinical, metabolic, and hormonal parameters in women with polycystic ovary syndrome over six months.

In this review, researchers reported that cinnamon and ginger supplementation may benefit PCOS patients by improving hormonal status, lipid profiles, obesity, and insulin resistance through oxidative stress and inflammation reduction.

This study found that women with PCOS and high BMI exhibited significantly increased hair growth compared to non-PCOS women, suggesting an additive effect of body weight on this phenotype in PCOS.

This review found that the only PCOS-specific quality of life measure, the PolyCystic Ovary Syndrome Questionnaire, has an incomplete development history and lacks some essential measurement properties for clinical trial use.

This article presents a model for evaluating public R&D that emphasizes measuring capacity-based metrics over traditional outcome-based metrics, using the concept of a Knowledge Value Collective.

The authors concluded that for women with PCOS, the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown exacerbated existing challenges, particularly impacting their mental health due to restricted healthcare access and increased uncertainty.

This study found that women with PCOS exhibited higher levels of alexithymia and body uneasiness compared to healthy controls, affecting their psychological and social well-being.

In this study, hs-CRP levels were not significantly associated with PCOS among Indian adolescent women, but showed a positive correlation with body mass index.

In this study, a very-low-calorie diet led to greater weight loss and improvements in hyperandrogenaemia and metabolic markers in obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome compared to a moderate energy deficit approach over eight weeks.

This article discusses the prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome, emphasizing its early diagnosis and management due to potential reproductive and metabolic complications, but reports no new findings.

This study found no significant difference in polycystic ovary syndrome prevalence between lesbian and heterosexual women seeking artificial insemination, nor in their fertility rates.

In this study, women with PCOS who took 12 mg of Astaxanthin daily for 8 weeks showed a reduction in certain inflammatory markers and apoptosis-related genes, suggesting potential benefits for managing PCOS, though effects on symptoms like BMI and hirsutism were not significant.

This study found that combined Myo-inositol and D-chiro-inositol therapy improved metabolic and hormonal parameters, including weight, hormone levels, and skin conditions, in women with PCOS after 6 months.

This study found that an 8-week low-starch/low-dairy diet led to weight loss, improved insulin sensitivity, and reduced testosterone levels in women with PCOS.

This review discusses metformin's use in women with polycystic ovary syndrome, focusing on benefits during pre-conception and pregnancy, but reports no new clinical results.

This paper discusses the link between polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and health issues like infertility and cardiovascular diseases, caused by both genetic and environmental factors, but reports no new clinical findings.

This study observed two distinct phenotypes among North Indian women with PCOS: obese hyperinsulinaemic dysglycemic women from Delhi and lean hyperandrogenic women from Srinagar, despite being in the same region.

This article discusses the need for a globally standardized protocol for epidemiologic studies of polycystic ovary syndrome to improve study comparability and public health policy.

This study developed the Chi-PCOSQ, a culturally adapted Chinese assessment tool for measuring health-related quality of life in women with polycystic ovary syndrome, showing promising reliability and validity.