Polycystic ovary syndrome is a set of symptoms due to elevated androgens in females. PCOS is due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Risk factors include obesity, a lack of physical exercise, and a family history of someone with the condition. Diagnosis is based on two of the following three findings: anovulation, high androgen levels, and ovarian cysts.
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Polycystic ovary syndrome is a set of symptoms due to elevated androgens in females. PCOS is due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Risk factors include obesity, a lack of physical exercise, and a family history of someone with the condition. Diagnosis is based on two of the following three findings: anovulation, high androgen levels, and ovarian cysts. Other conditions that produce similar symptoms include adrenal hyperplasia, hypothyroidism, and high blood levels of prolactin. Treatment may involve lifestyle changes such as weight loss and exercise. Birth control pills may help with improving the regularity of periods, excess hair growth, and acne. Metformin and anti-androgens may also help. Other typical acne treatments and hair removal techniques may be used. Efforts to improve fertility include weight loss, clomiphene, or metformin. In vitro fertilization is used by some in whom other measures are not effective. Although 80% of PCOS presents in women with obesity, 20% of women diagnosed with the disease are non-obese or ‘lean’ women. obese women that suffer from PCOS have a higher risk of adverse outcomes such as, hypertension, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and endometrialhyperplasia. Even though the name suggests that the ovaries are central to the pathology, Gynecologists often see it as a gynecological problem, with the ovary being a symptom instead of the cause of the disease.
Some symptoms of PCos will persist even if both ovaries have been removed, even if the disease can appear even if they are absent. The symptoms are partly reversible, since PCOS has some aspects of metabolic disorder, since its clinical problem consists of a problem, not a problem. Since its first description by Leventhal and Steinhal in 1935, the first description of its first symptoms was in 1935. The earliest known description of what is now recognized as PCOS dates from 1721 in Italy. It is the most common endocrine disorder among women between the ages of 18 and 44. It affects approximately 2% to 20%. of this age group depending on how it is defined. When someone is infertile due to lack of ovulation, PCos is theMost common cause. PCOS appears to manifest itself at least partially via heightened androgen Levels secreted by ovarian follicle theca cells from women with the allele. Some evidence that exposure to higher than typical levels of androgen and the anti-Müllerian hormone in utero increases the risk of developing PCOS in later life. The exact gene affected has not yet been identified. In rare instances, single-gene mutations can give rise to the phenotype of the syndrome. Current understanding of the pathogenesis of the PCOS suggests it is a complex multigenic disorder, that appears to be largely determined by obesity, that has aspects of obesity.
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