Article: Insulin resistance and polycystic ovarian syndrome; pathogenesis, evaluation, and treatment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Metformin urged for PCOS, despite lack of data: current ...
Family Practice News;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... hand, targets insulin resistance, "what may well ... abnormality in PCOS, and has been ... abnormalities of PCOS," said Dr. Tessa ... whether or not insulin resistance can be documented ... available data that insulin resistance leads to by perandrogenism ... primary cause of ...

Article: Insulin resistance in PCOS may be more ...
OB GYN News;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Forty women were diagnosed with PCOS and insulin resistance. A total of 34 had PCOS without insulin resistance, and 9 had irregular menstrual ... resistance. In the women with PCOS, insulin resistance was found in 73% of Mexican Americans ...

Article: POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME (PCOS) AND INSULIN ...
Gynecological Endocrinology;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... lean women with PCOS suffer from a form of insulin resistance that is intrinsic ... suffer from the insulin resistance intrinsic to PCOS compounded by that ... The relevance of insulin resistance to infertility in PCOS is that evidence ...

Article: PREVALENCE OF GLUCOSE METABOLISM ABNORMALITIES IN POLYCYSTIC ...
Gynecological Endocrinology;  February 1, 2004 ;     507 words ... ... glucose was found in 8%. Insulin resistance assessed by HOMA index was found in 58% of PCOS. HOMA values in PCOS non ... Conclusions: Women with PCOS have a high prevalence of insulin resistance (58%). PCOS associates insulin secretory ...

Article: A SIMPLE MULTIPLE REGRESSION FORMULA APPLIED TO DIAGNOSE ...
Gynecological Endocrinology;  February 1, 2004 ;     622 words ... ... used in diagnosing PCOS in PCO women with insulin resistance. A total of 85 women ... and 54 cases with PCOS, Insulin resistance was found in 46 ... formula to diagnose PCOS in PCO women with insulin resistance described as Y ...

Article: PCOS development may begin with Insulin ...
OB GYN News;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... testosterone is not the driver of events leading to PCOS. "Insulin resistance came first," Dr. Kalan commented in an interview ... resistance, "may be clinically useful to predict PCOS in an overweight, high-risk [Hispanic] population ...

Article: Screen PCOS patients' sisters, mothers for diabetes. ...
OB GYN News;  September 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Eighty-two matched controls ... previously been diagnosed with PCOS. Compared with the controls ... levels, suggestive of some insulin resistance, said Dr. Yildiz of the University ... about half of the sisters of PCOS patients who actually have ...