A significant proportion (one-third) of Asian women with PCOS have metabolic syndrome, with age, BMI, and insulin resistance being key risk factors.
May inform metabolic risk assessment in PCOS; leaves open prospective validation of risk factors.
According to the IDF criteria, one-third of the PCOS women had MS. This study also showed that age, BMI and HOMA-IR are important risk factors for MS.
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