Prevalence of androgenic alopecia in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome and characterization of associated clinical and biochemical features

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1129-1134

  Quinn, Molly ^a   Shinkai, Kanade ^a   Pasch, Lauri ^a   Kuzmich, Lili ^a   Cedars, Marcelle ^a   Huddleston, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

androgenic alopecia; clinical hyperandrogenism; Polycystic ovary syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACNE; ADULT; ALOPECIA; AMENORRHEA; ANDROGENIC ALOPECIA; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY FAST SCREEN; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DERMATOLOGIST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPH; ENDOCRINOLOGIST; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; INFERTILITY; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIST; QUALITY OF LIFE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ANDROGENIC ALOPECIA; CLINICAL HYPERANDROGENISM; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 84897141505     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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