Androgen Metabolism by Isolated Hairs from Women with Idiopathic Hirsutism Is Usually Normal
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Oral glucose tolerance test,blood insulin level and lipids metabolism in women with idiopathic hirsutism
It is becoming apparent that is patients with hirsutism, metabolic aberrations are of greater health importance rather than unwanted hair growth.in this respect , evaluation of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism was carried out on a group of 92 women with idiopathic hirsutism(IH).these were divided into: obese and non-profit obese groups.seventy healthy subjects were also taken as control group...
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Hirsutism, the presence of terminal (coarse) hairs in females in a male-like pattern, affects between 5% and 10% of women. Of the sex steroids, androgens are the most important in determining the type and distribution of hairs over the human body. Under the influence of androgens hair follicles that are producing vellus-type hairs can be stimulated to begin producing terminal hairs (i.e., termi...
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The average plasma testosterone concentration of women with either hirsutism or polycystic ovaries and hirsutism was higher (p < 0.01) than that of normal women although the ranges overlapped. Testosterone blood production rates averaged 830 +/- 120 SE and 1,180 +/- 310 SE mug per day in the two groups of hirsute women and 230 +/- 33 SE mug per day in normal women. The ranges did not overlap. T...
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of idiopathic hirsutism in a large population of hirsute women. DESIGN 588 hirsute women (mean age 24+/-1, range 15-36 years) were evaluated as outpatients at the Department of Endocrinology of the University of Palermo, Italy. The diagnosis of idiopathic hirsutism was established in hirsute patients presenting regular ovulatory menstrual cycles and normal...
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Background and Aim: Hirsutism is defined as the presence of terminal hairs in androgen dependent areas in women. It is a common clinical condition and affects 5% to 10% of women of reproductive age. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical features and etiologic factors of hirsutism in premenopausal women.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 200 premenopausal women with hirsutism ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Investigative Dermatology
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0022-202X
DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12259135