Maria Palmetun Ekbäck (2013): Hirsutism and Quality of Life with Aspects on Social Support, Anxiety and Depression. Örebro Studies in Medicine 98. Hirsutism is excessive hair growth in women. The prevalence is estimated at 5 %. The aim of this thesis was to describe different aspects of how life is affected for women suffering from hirsutism. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used....

Background. Nonclassic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (NCAH), caused by mutations in the gene encoding 21-hydroxylase, is a common autosomal recessive disorder. In the present work, our aim was to determine the prevalence of NCAH presenting as premature pubarche (PP), hirsutism, or polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and to evaluate the molecular spectrum of CYP21A2 mutations in NCAH patients. M...

We prospectively estimated the prevalence of the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), as defined by the NIH/NICHHD 1990 endocrine criteria, in a population of 154 Caucasian women of reproductive age reporting spontaneously for blood donation. Anthropometric data; the presence of hirsutism, acne, and androgenic alopecia; and the menstrual history were recorded by a single investigator. In 145 women...

PCOS, the leading cause of anovulatory infertility that affects up to one fifth of the female population, is a complex chronic disease of genetic as well as environmental determination, but still unclear etiology. Besides of infertility, PCOS leads to menstrual dysfunctions, hirsutism and obesity--symptoms that are known to cause profound psychosocial distress. The present paper review the prob...

background: polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) is the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age and is the most common cause of infertility due to anovulation. there is no single criterion for the diagnosis of this syndrome. objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of pcos and its associated complications in iranian women using meta-analysis method....

background: previous studies have demonstrated that clinical features of 16tpolycystic ovary syndrome16t (pcos) are associated with a lower degree of health, self, and sex satisfaction. objective: our study aimed to investigate possible associations between depression and different clinicobiochemical markers of pcos. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional analytic study, 120 pcos women age...