Ludmila Lazareva, Larisa Suturina, Alina Atalyan, Irina Danusevich, Iana Nadelyaeva, Lilia Belenkaya, Irina Egorova, Kseniia Ievleva, Natalia Babaeva, Daria Lizneva, Richard S Legro, Ricardo Azziz
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a highly prevalent disorder in women, and its diagnosis rests on three principal features: ovulatory/menstrual dysfunction, clinical and/or biochemical hyperandrogenism, and polycystic ovarian morphology (PCOM). Currently, data on age- and ethnicity-dependent features of PCOM remain insufficient. We aimed to estimate ethnicity- and age-dependent differences in ovarian volume (OV) and follicle number per ovary (FNPO) in a healthy, medically unbiased population of Caucasian and Asian premenopausal women, who participated in the cross-sectional Eastern Siberia PCOS epidemiology and phenotype (ESPEP) study (ClinicalTrials...
March 22, 2024: Diagnostics