In contrast with the dominant role usually attributed to estrogens in breast cancer, the Androgen-Excess Theory suggests a central role for androgens in this disease. According to the theory, androgen excess is the principal endocrine abnormality that characterizes women with breast cancer, and it is part of a complex hormonal disorder that involves estrogens as well as other hormones and metab...

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a complex endocrine disorder affecting numerous women of reproductive age across the globe. Characterized mainly by irregular menses, hirsutism, skewed LH: FSH ratios and bulky polycystic ovaries, this multifactorial endocrinopathy results in unfavorable reproductive and metabolic sequelae, including anovulatory infertility, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and c...

Objectives: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a reproductive endocrine and metabolic disorder. To offer new research direction for PCOS, including its pathogenesis treatment, this explores the relationship between neopterin (NPT) polycystic syndrome. Material Methods: This prospective study. 80 cases with PCOS were selected in medicine clinics of Second Affiliated Hospital Shandong First Medi...

This competency framework was developed by a working group of endocrine specialist nurses with the support of the Society for Endocrinology to enhance the clinical care that adults with an endocrine disorder receive. Nurses should be able to demonstrate that they are functioning at an optimal level in order for patients to receive appropriate care. By formulating a competency framework from whi...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common heterogeneous endocrine disorder characterized by irregular menses, hyperandrogenism, and polycystic ovaries. The prevalence of PCOS varies depending on which criteria are used to make the diagnosis, but is as high as 15%-20% when the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology/American Society for Reproductive Medicine criteria are used. ...

BACKGROUND Background: Demodex mites are acari that reside in the pilosebaceous unit of the skin and have been associated with skin disorders. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Demodex folliculorum (D. folliculorum) mites in polycystic ovary syndrome patients as well as to examine the relationship between Demodex infestation and the presence of acne an...

background: phytoestrogens are a group of plants derived compounds with weekly estrogen effect that appear to have protective effects on metabolic and hormonal abnormalities of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos). so the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of soy phytoestrogens on reproductive hormones and lipid profiles in pcos women. methods: in this quasi-randomized trial...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a highly prevalent endocrine-metabolic illness that has alarmingly high rates of infertility and other significant effects on the health women. This review study highlighted Insulin appears to damage every part hypothalamus-hypophysis-ovary axis, insulin resistance in ovarian tissue leads impaired metabolic signalling but intact mitogenic steroidogenic activi...