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The guideline refines PCOS diagnosis, promotes a healthy lifestyle, reviews treatments, and stresses long-term follow-up.

A model using hormone levels, cycle length, and BMI can help identify PCOS in Chinese women but isn't for screening teens.

Most women with hirsutism have mild symptoms and often experience acne, menstrual irregularities, and obesity.

Understanding how androgens and their receptors work can lead to improved treatments for skin diseases.

Excessive hair growth affects the quality of life of Iranian women with PCOS the most.

New treatments for PCOS focus on insulin resistance and reducing testosterone levels, along with traditional hormone therapies.

For women with moderate to severe unwanted hair growth or acne, birth control pills are the first choice, with other medications like cyproterone, spironolactone, flutamide, or finasteride as alternatives, and permanent hair removal should be done with electrolysis or laser.

More adolescent girls in urban areas of India have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome compared to those in rural areas.

All three treatments reduce hirsutism, but spironolactone works best long-term.

Caucasian and Asian women with PCOS generally show similar symptoms, except Asian women have less chest hair.

PCOS affects about 4% of women in the southeastern U.S. equally across Black and White populations.

Flutamide effectively reduces hair growth in women with hirsutism and improves acne and seborrhea without side effects.

Spironolactone can reduce hair growth and testosterone in hirsutism, but is less effective than combined treatments.

Hirsutism, often caused by PCOS, is treated with medication and weight loss is important for obese women with PCOS.

Canrenone effectively reduced hair growth and testosterone levels in women with excessive hairiness.

The main causes of hirsutism in Jordanian women are PCOS and idiopathic hirsutism.

Most hirsutism patients had idiopathic hirsutism or PCOS, with hormonal imbalances and signs like acne and irregular periods.

Most patients experienced hirsutism again after stopping hormone treatment, indicating long-term treatment is needed to maintain results.

Excessive hair growth is much more common in Chinese women with PCOS than in the general population.

Spironolactone reduces the enzyme activity that converts testosterone to DHT, helping treat excessive hair growth in women.

Finasteride effectively reduces hair growth in women with idiopathic hirsutism, but requires careful contraception during treatment.

Hormone treatments in transsexual individuals reduce hair growth and oil production in male-to-females and increase them in female-to-males.

Finasteride reduces dihydrotestosterone, increases testosterone, and may treat hirsutism in women.

PCOS affects a similar percentage of Black and White women in the Southeastern United States.

Most women with excess hair growth have an underlying hormonal issue, often treated with medication and hair removal methods.

Flutamide is more effective and has fewer side effects than spironolactone for treating hirsutism.

Androgens can cause hair growth in some areas and hair loss on the scalp.

Cyproterone acetate-estrogen most effective for hirsutism, but consider side effects and patient needs.

All treatments reduce hair growth; low dose flutamide most effective with fewer side effects.

Hirsutism in women often indicates a hormonal imbalance and can be managed with a combination of hormonal treatments and hair removal methods.