Affiliation:
1. Departments of Endocrinology, Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF
Abstract
SUMMARY In a consecutive series of 41 hirsute women clinically classified as benign androgen excess, only 34% were found to have elevated plasma ‘total’ testosterone (T), 22% having subnormal sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG). When expressed as the ratio T/SHBG (‘free androgen index’), 85% of the patients had values above the normal range. It is concluded that this index is more reliable than total testosterone in assessing androgen status in female patients.
Subject
Clinical Biochemistry,General Medicine
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