Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Important Underrecognised Cardiometabolic Risk Factor in Reproductive-Age Women

Table 1

PCOS diagnostic criteria, adapted from Teede et al. 2010 [5].

NIH 1990	Rotterdam 2003	AE-PCOS Society 2006
Both of the following^*: (i) chronic anovulation, documented by oligo-or amenorrhea; (ii) clinical and/or biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism (with exclusion of other etiologies, e.g., congenital adrenal hyperplasia); with or without PCO on ultrasound	At least two of the following^*: (i) chronic anovulation, documented by oligo-or amenorrhea; (ii) clinical and/or biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism; (iii) polycystic ovaries (by ultrasound)	(i) Clinical and/or biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism and; at least one of the following^*: (i) ovarian dysfunction (oligo/anovulation and/or polycystic ovarian morphology)

^*After exclusion of the diseases that produce a similar clinical picture.