Why the study?
Do women with polycystic ovary syndrome have abnormal serum lipoprotein lipid profiles compared to weight-matched controls?
Population
89 women, including 24 obese with PCOS, 25 non-obese with PCOS, 20 obese controls, and 20 non-obese controls.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Obesity may drive lipid abnormalities in PCOS more than the syndrome itself; leaves open independent PCOS effects on lipoproteins beyond adiposity.
Do women with polycystic ovary syndrome have abnormal serum lipoprotein lipid profiles compared to weight-matched controls?
In women with PCOS, lipoprotein lipid profiles are not significantly more abnormal than in weight-matched controls, suggesting that obesity rather than PCOS per se drives the lipid abnormalities.
Holte et al. (1994) studied this question.
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