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[Effects of pregnancy and changes in body weight on polycystic ovary syndrome phenotypes according to the Rotterdam criteria].
Revista medica de Chile - 1 Aug 2014
Echiburú Bárbara, Ladrón de Guevara Amanda, Pereira Cecilia, Pérez Constanza, Michael Pía, Crisosto Nicolás, Sir-Petermann Teresa
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is tightly associated with insulin resistance and obesity and characterized by hyperandrogenism, chronic oligo-anovulation and polycystic ovarian morphology when fully expressed. The 2003 Rotterdam consensus proposed that two or three of these features were necessary to make the diagnosis, which generated four phenotypes. Several studies have suggested that these...
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