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This study found that lipid accumulation product (LAP) and free androgen index (FAI) can highly predict liver steatosis in women with PCOS phenotype A.

This study found that a lifestyle promotion program led to significant weight loss, waist reduction, and improved menstrual regularity and acne symptoms in adolescents with PCOS, while also promoting similar benefits in non-PCOS adolescents.

During LIFEHOUSE, researchers documented distinct patterns of physical exam findings and biomarker abnormalities in 369 adult employees, which may aid clinicians in recognizing wellness challenges and preventing chronic diseases associated with aging.

This study reported that postnatal environmental factors, such as childhood height and early hospitalization for immune-related diseases, were associated with an increased risk of testicular germ-cell tumor, with minimal observed variation between seminomas and non-seminomas.

In this study, researchers identified two person-centered sexual function profiles among women, linked to physical and psychological factors, with PCOS showing greater, though not significant, presence in the dysfunction profile. The dysfunction was associated with higher adiposity and body-image distress.

This review systematically analyzed 22 clinical trials on hair care, finding that while most studies employed appropriate statistical methods, significant inconsistencies in reporting test assumptions and effect sizes may hinder reproducibility, highlighting a need for better standardization and transparency in these research practices.

This randomized clinical trial found that vitamin D supplementation did not significantly alter anthropometric or metabolic parameters in obese, insulin-resistant, and vitamin D-deficient women with polycystic ovary syndrome, whereas metformin effectively reduced body weight, BMI, waist circumference, total body fat, and serum glucose levels.

This paper discusses the application of artistic and anthropometric principles in hairline reconstruction, emphasizing their role in enhancing facial balance and personal appearance in trauma or burn patients, but provides no new clinical results.

This study developed a new analytical method to identify a wide range of endocrine disrupting compounds in full-term amniotic fluid, revealing diverse substances with potential endocrine activity.

This study found that LC-MS/MS is a more reliable method than immunoassays for measuring serum 17OHP and androgen levels in women with hyperandrogenism.

This study reported the development of reliable discriminative models using anthropometric and somatotypological indicators to classify Ukrainian women as typical for healthy individuals or those with urticaria, as well as distinguishing between mild or severe acute urticaria, with high accuracy in most cases.

This review highlights the potential for clinicians to recognize skin manifestations as a straightforward method to detect insulin resistance and improve management of diabetes and obesity.

This review discusses the challenges of interpreting observational studies on COVID-19 due to biases from non-representative samples, such as collider bias, and suggests better sampling methods to mitigate these issues.

The document concludes that using LC-MS/MS for measuring androgens is more accurate than older methods, but it needs careful validation and standardized references to be most effective.

In this study of women with polycystic ovary syndrome, insulin resistance was associated with obesity, waist circumference, lipid accumulation, and hypertension, with no significant difference in prevalence between different diagnostic methods.

This article outlines the rationale and design of the Rotterdam Study, summarizes its major findings, and updates its objectives and methods; it reports no new research results.

This article discusses the rationale, design, major findings, and updated objectives and methods of the ongoing Rotterdam Study on various diseases, without reporting new research results.

In this study, both endoscopic and pretrichial open forehead lifts were found to significantly elevate eyebrows long-term, with high patient satisfaction reported, showing no significant difference between the two methods.

This study tested the feasibility of using multimodal recruitment strategies to assemble a diverse group of 438 women for a web-based survey on ovulation and menstruation health, finding that internet and community fair methods achieved higher enrollment and completion rates compared to clinic recruitment.

This article discusses the role of anthropometry in torso aesthetics and plastic surgery, focusing on Carlo Rochet's sculptural work, and reports no new clinical findings.

This review summarizes treatment techniques and indications for addressing the long upper lip due to aging, but includes no new clinical results.

The authors concluded that establishing and standardizing methods for data collection are crucial to improving PCOS diagnosis and research due to challenges observed in data harmonization across diverse international cohorts.

This review discusses nonsurgical techniques for facial masculinization and feminization in transgender patients and reports no new clinical findings, utilizing data from analogous procedures in cisgender individuals.

This source critically examines the limitations of using BMI to assess obesity in women, especially during reproductive, pregnancy, and postmenopausal stages, and discusses more precise alternative methods for evaluating obesity in line with sex-specific healthcare needs.

This study found that young men using finasteride for androgenic alopecia exhibited erectile tissue fibrosis and associated sexual dysfunction, including low libido and mood changes.

The document concludes that careful planning and execution of facial gender affirmation surgery after at least 12 months of hormonal therapy can improve the quality of life for transgender individuals.

This study concluded that the process of mummification disfigures facial features, making identification challenging, but commercial shrunken heads retain more defining features compared to ceremonial ones.

This study found that subclinical hypothyroidism had minimal impact on the metabolic and hormonal profiles of women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

This study explored how men's perceived height and androgenetic alopecia affect social and personality impressions, reporting a potential "attractiveness malus" but noting limitations due to an older dataset, selective sample, and cultural homogeneity among raters.

In this study, testosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone in children's hair were strongly correlated, supporting hair as a potential method for measuring these hormones.