OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of metformin in improving clinical and biochemical features of polycystic ovary syndrome. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES Randomised controlled trials that investigated the effect of metformin compared with either placebo or no treatment, or compared with an ovulation induction agent. SELECTION OF STUDIES 13 trials were includ...

Introduction: A search was made on the treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome with Chinese Herbal Medicine via Pub med The National Library of Medicine; six references to related research to polycystic ovary syndrome were found, although some had an indirect link and in Chinese. Another search was made using CISCOM database, one article in English was found. A further search for literature was ...

Background: Hyperandrogenism (HA), inflammation, and oxidative damage play key roles in the pathophysiology of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Whether vitamin D adjuvant therapy improves hormonal, PCOS patients has aroused widespread interest, but results are controversial. To evaluate effect supplementation on stress, inflammatory parameters with PCOS.

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a highly prevalent endocrine-metabolic illness that has alarmingly high rates of infertility and other significant effects on the health women. This review study highlighted Insulin appears to damage every part hypothalamus-hypophysis-ovary axis, insulin resistance in ovarian tissue leads impaired metabolic signalling but intact mitogenic steroidogenic activi...

More recently, in December 2012, the National Institutes of Health Office for Disease Prevention convened the first Evidencebased Methodology Workshop on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome [11]. These discussions led participants to suggest modifications to the name polycystic ovary syndrome that would better define and recognize the reproductive features and the longterm metabolic risks associated with...