Polycystic ovary syndrome: Scientists closer to understanding cause
A common cause of female infertility - polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) - may be due to a hormonal imbalance before birth, researchers have found. Researchers have been able to cure it in mice, and a clinical trial in human women is due to begin later this year, the New Scientist reports. PCOS affects up to one in five women worldwide, it says.
It affects how a woman's ovaries work - symptoms include irregular periods and difficulty getting pregnant. "It's by far the most common hormonal condition affecting women of reproductive age, but it hasn't received a lot of attention," Robert Norman at the University of Adelaide in Australia told the New Scientist. More than half of the women affected don't have any symptoms.
Researchers at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) have found that the syndrome may be triggered before birth by excess exposure in the womb to a hormone called anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) [DOI: 10.1038/s41591-018-0035-5] [DX]. They found pregnant women with PCOS have 30% higher levels of the hormone than normal.
Also at Newsweek.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 16 2018, @08:05AM
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Ovarian cysts are not commonly fatal but they can get pretty big - and there can be more than one of them.
I know someone else who was at first diagnose with ovarian cysts but her insistence on proper medical attention yielded the insight that in reality it was uterine cancer, which is often fatal - uterine cancer killed my maternal grandmother.
This someone else was given weekly radiation and chemotherapy. The last time I saw her she very proudly told me that she was "free of cancer".
I didn't want to tell her that the medical community never refers to cancer as "cured" but rather as "in remission". It happens all the time that the cancer reappears or even metastasize five or even ten years later.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by BananaPhone on Wednesday May 16 2018, @03:51PM
A friend of mine had a wife and there were trying to get pregnant.
They said they had to drain the cysts before going through an in vitro Fertilization cycle.
They said that PCOS is why she had massive cramps during her period as a teenager and in her 20s.
(at the time, she even went to the hospital and they couldn't find anything wrong.)
PCOS makes it VERY hard to get pregnant BTW.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:40PM
The plastics the parents were forced to eat partially as part of their diet had something to do with it. It is no wonder that sperm-count is dropping in places the khazar jewish vermin want to reduce population. We are at war with the khazar jews and we are just beginning to find out the many ways they have been murdering us systematically.
To get back your life and health, BDS: Ban, Divest, Sanction. Hurt them and reduce their influence over you, eliminating it over time. Expose the criminal jew behind it all. It is the only way.