[Androgen excess in women and the metabolic syndrome (syndrome X)].
In this paper we presented characteristics of insulin resistance syndrome (IRS), also known as metabolic syndrome and syndrome X, with an emphasis on insulin resistance in hyperandrogenemic women. The aim features of IRS are obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia-hypertriglyceridemia and decreased HDL cholesterol, impaired glucose tolerance with hyperinsulinemia and higher cardiovascular morbidity. It is considered typical that in hyperandrogenemia, especially in PCO syndrome, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia without other characteristics of IRS are expressed.
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Zavod za endokrinologiju, dijabetes i bolesti metabolizma Interne klinike KB Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb.
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017588:Hyperandrogenism / Q000378:metabolism*; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D011085:Polycystic Ovary Syndrome / Q000378:metabolism; D013577:Syndrome
Suvisak androgena u zena i metabolicki sindrom (sindrom X).