Healthy women with polycystic ovary syndrome exhibit normal endothelial function despite the presence of insulin resistance.
Do healthy women with polycystic ovary syndrome have abnormal endothelial function?
Healthy women with PCOS appear to have normal endothelial function despite the presence of insulin resistance.
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Women with the polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) carry a number of cardiovascular risk factors, including insulin resistance, lipid abnormalities, and an altered pattern of sex steroid exposure. Noninvasive measurements of endothelial function, which can demonstrate abnormalities well in advance of clinically apparent disease, have not been previously reported in this patient group.
Mather et al. (Mon,) reported a other. Healthy women with polycystic ovary syndrome exhibit normal endothelial function despite the presence of insulin resistance.