A prospective study of the prevalence of the polycystic ovary syndrome in unselected Caucasian women from Spain

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2434-2438

  Asunción, Miryam ^a   Calvo, Rosa M ^a   San Millá N, Josél L ^a   Sancho, José ^a   Avila, Sergio ^a   Escobar Morreale, Héctor F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPAIN; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HIRSUTISM; HUMANS; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; OLIGOMENORRHEA; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0034457559     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.85.7.2434     Document Type: Article

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