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- Title
Overweight status of adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome: body mass index as mediator of quality of life.
- Authors
Trent, Maria; Austin, S Bryn; Rich, Michael; Gordon, Catherine M
- Abstract
Adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have significant disruption in health-related quality of life (HRQL) compared to their healthy peers, but it is unclear which aspects of the disorder have the greatest impact on these quality-of-life changes. Studies of adult women have indicated that weight status has a significant impact on subjective symptomatology; however, a similar effect of weight status on HRQL in adolescents with PCOS has not been established. This study evaluated the effect of body mass index (BMI) on quality-of-life disturbances in adolescent girls with PCOS.
- Publication
Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, 2005, Vol 5, Issue 2, p107
- ISSN
1530-1567
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1367/A04-130R.1