Atherogenic changes in low-density lipoprotein of non-obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome

  Posted by Chantel M. Research contributed by the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

The prevalence of childbearing age obesity is wide spreading in US, approximately, 50% of them are either overweight [body mass index (BMI) 25-29.9 kg/m(2)] or obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m(2)).
Atherogenic changes in low-density lipoprotein of non-obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome
In a case-control study of the evaluating complete lipid and lipoprotein profiles in 64 Non PCOS patients and 64 age- and BMI-matched controls. All women with PCOS in our study population were not obese and to determine the differences in the LDL particle profiles between PCOS phenotypes, the patients with PCOS were divided into two subgroups according to the presence of clinical or biochemical hyperandrogenism, posted in PubMed, indicated that  non-obese women with PCOS have no significant quantitative or qualitative changes in LDL-C profile, data on obese Korean women with PCOS could offer complementary findings about the possible relationship between the magnitude of obesity and LDL phenotype.

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