Clinical characteristics of polycystic ovary syndrome: Investigating differences in White and South Asian women

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 542-549

  Mani, Hamidreza ^a,b   Davies, Melanie J ^a   Bodicoat, Danielle H ^a   Levy, Miles J ^b   Gray, Laura J ^a,c   Howlett, Trevor A ^b   Khunti, Kamlesh ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS; ACNE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKE; SOUTH ASIAN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941934988     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12784     Document Type: Article

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