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Visual, hidden clues to PCOS aid diagnosis. (Hair Removal).
NEW YORK -- Polycystic ovarian syndrome is underrecognized but could be more widely diagnosed if clinicians were better attuned to its visual clues, including hirsutism, which many patients are effective in partially hiding, Dr. Geoffrey Redmond said.
"The typical visual signs of PCOS are overweight/obesity and androgenic skin and hair changes-namely acne, hirustism, and androgenic alopecia. However, not all patients with PCOS have all these signs, and hirsutism is often concealed," said Dr. Redmond, who is director of the Hormone Center of New York in New York City.
An estimated 10% of American women, including many women with PCOS, remove hair twice a week. Still, hirsutism is frequently detectable if the clinician looks and/or inquires closely enough, he said at a gynecology symposium sponsored by Symposia Medicus.
"Some women will only mask the hair growth with bleaching or will only remove facial and neck hair and not areas of body hair," he said.
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