Exploration of the classification of polycystic ovarian syndrome / 中华妇产科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the clinical presentation, hormonal profile and metabolic abnormalities in subgroups of women with PCOS and explore a reasonable classification for PCOS. Methods A cross-sectional study of 192 women with PCOS (14-38 years of age) was performed. The patients were divided into 3 groups of A, B and C according to the revised 2003 consensus on diagnostic criteria and also divided into 2 groups according to body mass index(BMI) group A(n=110), long term anovulation, clinical and biochemical evidence of high androgen level, ovary enlargement with its size larger than 10 ml or number of small follicles of 2-9 mm ≥12 under ultrasound with exclusion of other diseases caused by high androgen;group B(n=46), long term anovulation, clinical and biochemical evidence of high androgen level;group C(n=36), long term anovulation, ovary enlargement with its size larger than 10 ml or number of small follicles of 2-9 mm ≥12 under ultrasound with exclusion of other disease caused by high androgen; obesity PCOS group (OB-PCOS,n=70),BMI≥25(kg/m~2); no obesity PCOS group (NOB-PCOS,n=122), BMI