COMPARISON OF POLYCYSTIC OVARIES IN OBESE AND NON-OBESE PATIENTS

Abstract

Polycystic ovarian syndrome is a very common female endocrine; metabolic and reproductive disorder mainly affects females of reproductive age. It is multiple organ disorder affects 5 to 10 % female population. The world occurrence of PCOS is 105 million in the age ranges from 15 to 45. This metabolic dysfunction is closely related with obesity, hirsutism, acne and pregnancy complications. Around 5-10% of female population is affected, obese women are more prone to PCOS. Objective: To evaluate the comparison of polycystic ovaries between obese and non-obese females. Methods: A literature search was performed with the use of search engines. The following search engines provided the articles for this systematic review, PubMed, Medscape, NCBI, and Google Scholar. For article searching following keywords were used; Polycystic ovaries, obese and non-obese. Results: As literature reviewed of 30 articles and only 39 were included in this review, it is found that Mean age of all subjects was 24-35 year. Obese 20-29 year and non-obese 19-35 year. Hirsutism was observed mostly in obese patient of PCOs and not observed in non-obese. Incidence of Amenorrhea was higher in non-obese than obese patients. Acne was observed in all patients.Conclusion: It is concluded that there is a significant effect of obesity on clinical features of patients with PCOS.