Polikistik Over Sendromunun Uzun Dönem Kardiyometabolik Sonuçları

Abstract

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) characterized by hyperandrogenism, oligo-anovulation and polycystic ovaries is an endocrinopathy that is associated with metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. PCOS appears to carry long-term cardiometabolic risk. Oral contraceptives (OCs), anti-androgenic agents and metformin therapy is used for the long-term management of PCOS. However, there are insufficient data on long-term cardiometabolic outcome of PCOS and effects of OCs in treatment of PCOS. In our study, we investigated alterations in clinical and cardiometabolic parameters of 90 PCOS patients who had a follow-up of at least 2 years and OCs use. For this purpose we evaluated patients? body weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist to hip ratio (WHR), blood pressure, modified Ferriman-Gallwey (mFG) score, testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), free androgen index (FAI), glucose levels at 0 min, and 120 min during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, and lipid profiles. At the end of the study with 32-month use of OCs and 44-month follow-up of 90 patients, body weight, BMI, waist circumference, WHR, OGTT 0. min glucose, total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL), high density lipoprotein (HDL) and SHBG levels were increased, whereas mFG score, testosterone and FAI were decreased. The frequency of glucose intolerance and metabolic syndrome did not change between the time of diagnosis and final visit. Body weight, BMI, waist circumference, and WHR increases may be a primary long-term outcome of PCOS or result of OCs use. While OCs treatment is effective on hyperandrogenism, there was no significant worsening of glucose homeostasis. Increase of total cholesterol, LDL, and HDL levels appear to be associated with OCs use. We compared the therapies of OCs alone and OC combined with anti-androgens or metformin. OC combination was more effective than OC therapy alone on HDL increase in PCOS patients. Long-term prospective studies with larger populations are needed the confirm findings of the present study.