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PCOS may be classified into 4 types based on the severity of symptoms into asymptomatic form, mild form, classical form, and metabolic form. | PCOS may be classified into 4 types based on the severity of symptoms into asymptomatic form, mild form, classical form, and metabolic form. | ||
==Classification== | ==Classification== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aditya Ganti M.B.B.S. [2]
Overview
PCOS may be classified into 4 types based on the severity of symptoms into asymptomatic form, mild form, classical form, and metabolic form.
Classification
PCOS may be classified into 4 types based upon severity of symptoms into:[1]
- Asymptomatic form: Women with only poly cystic ovarian morphology
- Mild form: Poly cystic ovarian morphology along with anovulation
- Classical form: Hyperandrogenism along with ovarian dysfunction (anovulation and/or poly cystic ovarian )
- Metabolic form: Combination of mild and classical forms with presence of obesity and/or insulin resistance (abdominal obesity, insülin resistance, raised waist/hip ratio)