Puerto Rico is committed to the more serious study of comorbidities that accompanies the diagnosis of polycystic ovary.
Doctora Loida González Rodríguez, endocrinologist.
And that are the Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics and the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Endocrinology del Recinto de Ciencias Médicas (RCM), se unieron en lazos científicos esta ves para evalua de manner empirica coma esta enfermedad pudiera traer consigo variables altmente significant semantas que accompanin a este diagnóstico, Roda la doctor, endocrinologists.
Polycystic ovary syndrome is a complex that affects many women of different manners. It is reconstituted by sinuses such as irregular menstrual periods or menstrual discharge, infertility related to ovulation, increase in corporal or facial skin, acne, insulin resistance and obesity.
Not all polycystic ovary cases are present in the same manner and some can be asymptomatic, as described.
“The polycystic ovary is one of the most common endocrinopathies in women an edad reproductive. The prevalence varies from population to population, and can range from 5 to 10%. It is mainly characterized by menstrual irregularities and signs associated with androgen excess, it is understood as testosterone. The symptoms can be acne, cable loss and excess velocity, ”explained Gonález’s doctor.
“These women have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, insulin resistance and the ability to overcome diabetes or diabetes. This risk is due to the fact that the syndrome is very much linked to insulin resistance, apart from those suffering from obesity, cholesterol, triglycerides and apnea in the world, but in Puerto Rico there are no scientific data on this, ”the doctor indicated.
Precisely between the preliminary halls of the studio is the diagnostic market of metabolic syndrome in this population of women.
If a group of cardiac disease risk factors, diabetes and other health problems.
It is known that approximately one in three women with polycystic ovary also had metabolic syndrome, aseguró the specialist.
“Now we have 125 patients with whom we are the first to be admitted and 28 are patients who have been analyzed and who are alive – in their 28 patients specifically – the prevalence metabolic syndrome of these 28 patients is 45.5%. Las 28 women are diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, it is the meeting of the patients who are studying ”, revealed the doctor.
“We want to evaluate in this population some of its most common phenotypes in Puerto Rico, with the phenotypes that make up clinical presentations because it has basically four clinical presentations of these females. The first is the classic with irregular menstruation and when the ovary chronogram has twists in the ovary, it is also a phenotype that has different irregularities and the exam does not take place in the ovaries. There is another presentation that presents with an excess of androgen nothing more, ”indicated the doctor.
“Polycystic ovary syndrome can present in different ways in the women “It is not necessary to look at the woman who is obese or with menstrual irregularities or speed bumps”, assures the doctor.
Among the authors of this study is also the obstetrician, Dra. Josefina Romagueras.