Objective: To determine the prevalence of insulin resistance (IR) in a large p opulation of patients with the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Design: Prospec tive, case-control. Setting: University medical center. P...Objective: To determine the prevalence of insulin resistance (IR) in a large p opulation of patients with the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Design: Prospec tive, case-control. Setting: University medical center. Patient(s): Two hundred seventy-one PCOS patients and 260 eumenorrheic, non-hirsute, control women. I ntervention(s): History and physical examination and blood sampling. Main Outcom e Measure(s): Total T, free T, DHEAS, sex hormone-binding globulin, and fasting glucose and insulin levels; homeostatic model assessment values for IR (HOMA-I R) and percent β-cell function (HOMA-%β-cell). Result(s): Patients with PC OS and controls differed significantly in all parameters studied, except fasting glucose. Because the HOMA-IR and HOMA-%β-cell values were variably associa ted with race, age, and body mass index, the HOMA-IR and HOMA-%β-cell value s were then adjusted for these cofounders. After adjustment, 64.4%of PCOS patie nts were noted to be insulin resistant, and 2.6%had β-cell dysfunction. Compa red with PCOS patients without IR (n = 96), patients with IR (n = 174) were more obese and had higher β-cell function. Conclusion(s): In patients with PCOS, t he prevalence of IR was 64%according to the HOMA-IR measurement, after adjustm ent. Patients with IR were more clinically affected. Although IR is a common abn ormality in PCOS, it does not seem to be a universal feature.展开更多
We studied 259 consecutive unselected white patients with the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and 161 matched controls for a common polymorphism of CYP17, the gene encoding for P450c17α , and did not observe an impo...We studied 259 consecutive unselected white patients with the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and 161 matched controls for a common polymorphism of CYP17, the gene encoding for P450c17α , and did not observe an important modulatory effect of this variant on circulating DHEAS. It does not appear that this common variant of CYP17, a T to C substitution in the 5′ promoter region, plays a significant role in the adrenal androgen excess of PCOS.展开更多
Given that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with oligo-ovulatory infertility and is an inherited trait,we hypothesized that the families of patients with PCOS are smaller than those of matched controls. ...Given that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with oligo-ovulatory infertility and is an inherited trait,we hypothesized that the families of patients with PCOS are smaller than those of matched controls. However,our study of 106 white patients with PCOS,ages 18-45,and 53 healthy eumenorrheic nonhirsute white controls did not indicate a difference in family size between the groups; these results have important implications for the design of prospective studies of the heritability and genetics of PCOS.展开更多
文摘Objective: To determine the prevalence of insulin resistance (IR) in a large p opulation of patients with the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Design: Prospec tive, case-control. Setting: University medical center. Patient(s): Two hundred seventy-one PCOS patients and 260 eumenorrheic, non-hirsute, control women. I ntervention(s): History and physical examination and blood sampling. Main Outcom e Measure(s): Total T, free T, DHEAS, sex hormone-binding globulin, and fasting glucose and insulin levels; homeostatic model assessment values for IR (HOMA-I R) and percent β-cell function (HOMA-%β-cell). Result(s): Patients with PC OS and controls differed significantly in all parameters studied, except fasting glucose. Because the HOMA-IR and HOMA-%β-cell values were variably associa ted with race, age, and body mass index, the HOMA-IR and HOMA-%β-cell value s were then adjusted for these cofounders. After adjustment, 64.4%of PCOS patie nts were noted to be insulin resistant, and 2.6%had β-cell dysfunction. Compa red with PCOS patients without IR (n = 96), patients with IR (n = 174) were more obese and had higher β-cell function. Conclusion(s): In patients with PCOS, t he prevalence of IR was 64%according to the HOMA-IR measurement, after adjustm ent. Patients with IR were more clinically affected. Although IR is a common abn ormality in PCOS, it does not seem to be a universal feature.
文摘We studied 259 consecutive unselected white patients with the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and 161 matched controls for a common polymorphism of CYP17, the gene encoding for P450c17α , and did not observe an important modulatory effect of this variant on circulating DHEAS. It does not appear that this common variant of CYP17, a T to C substitution in the 5′ promoter region, plays a significant role in the adrenal androgen excess of PCOS.
文摘Given that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with oligo-ovulatory infertility and is an inherited trait,we hypothesized that the families of patients with PCOS are smaller than those of matched controls. However,our study of 106 white patients with PCOS,ages 18-45,and 53 healthy eumenorrheic nonhirsute white controls did not indicate a difference in family size between the groups; these results have important implications for the design of prospective studies of the heritability and genetics of PCOS.
