Endocrine Abstracts

The aim of this epidemiologic study, performed in a wide population of high-school students in Northern Italy, was to obtain an unbiased estimate of the prevalence of hyperandrogenic states in adolescents and young females.2052 female students, aged 15–19 years, were consecutively contacted. 939/2052 (45.8%) refused to participate in the study, but 431 of the 939 non-participants (45.9%) agreed to fill out a brief questionnaire aimed to broadly asse...

Aim: This study was aimed to estimate the nutritional status and the prevalence of weight excess in a wide unselected population of adolescent and young students from Emilia Romagna.Material and methods: Three thousand and ninety-one high school students, aged 15–19 years were consecutively contacted. One thousand eight hundred sixty out of 3091 (60.2%) accepted to participate in an epidemiologic study, whose procedures included anthropometric measu...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has an early onset. However, its prevalence in the youngest age groups has not been assessed, mostly due to the poor specificity of the criteria for defining PCOS in adolescents, including the testosterone references generated only on adult women. Moreover, the current references for testosterone were mostly built by immunoassays, known to have poor accuracy. This study was aimed at defining androgen and pro-androgen reference intervals in 149 ...