The Correlation between Hormonal Disturbance in PCOS Women and Serum Level of Kisspeptin
Table 1
The comparison of the biochemical markers, age, and BMI in infertile PCOS and control women.
Parameters
Infertile PCOS women (mean and SD)
Control (mean and SD)
value
Number of the subjects
60
40
Age (years)
30.09 ± 7.60
31.6 ± 7.16
NS
BMI (kg/m2)
26.05 ± 3.76
25.93 ± 3.7
NS
Kisspeptin (ng/ml)
1.79 ± 0.98
1.05 ± 0.86
<0.05
SHBG (nmol/L)
77.86 ± 55
80 ± 13.2
NS
Free testosterone (ng/ml)
0.66 ± 0.75
0.37 ± 0.22
<0.05
Estrogen (pg/ml)
47.76 ± 42
45.85 ± 15
<0.05
FSH (mIU/ml)
5.04 ± 1.33
6.25 ± 2
<0.05
LH (mIU/ml)
8.92 ± 5.47
4.57 ± 1.02
<0.05
The PCOS women were also subdivided into four phenotypes according to their clinical and biochemical parameters. The frequency of each phenotype is shown in Table 2.
