title: Increase in daily LH secretion in response to short-term calorie restriction in obese women with PCOS.
abstract: We hypothesized that short-term calorie restriction would blunt luteinizing hormone (LH) hypersecretion in obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and thereby ameliorate the anovulatory endocrine milieu. To test this hypothesis, 15 obese patients with PCOS and nine age- and body mass index-matched healthy women underwent 24-h blood sampling to quantitate plasma LH, leptin, and insulin levels. PCOS subjects were prescribed a very low caloric liquid diet (4.2 MJ/day) for 7 days and were then resampled. Basal and pulsatile LH secretion was threefold higher in PCOS subjects, but plasma insulin and leptin levels were not different in the calorie-replete state. Contrary to expectation, calorie restriction enhanced basal and pulsatile LH secretion even further. As expected, plasma glucose, insulin, and leptin concentrations decreased by 18, 75, and 50%, respectively. Serum total testosterone concentration fell by 23%, whereas serum estrone, estradiol, sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), and androstenedione concentrations remained unchanged. Enhanced LH secretion in the presence of normal metabolic and hormonal adaptations to calorie restriction points to anomalous feedback control of pituitary LH release in PCOS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Eveline W C M
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Van Dam
authors.forename: Ferdinand
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Roelfsema
authors.forename: Johannes D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Veldhuis
authors.forename: Frans M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Helmerhorst
authors.forename: Marijke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Frölich
authors.forename: A Edo
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Meinders
authors.forename: H Michiel J
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Krans
authors.forename: Hanno
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pijl
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000735:Androstenedione / Q000097:blood; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D015992:Body Mass Index; D004038:Diet, Reducing; D002149:Energy Intake; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood; D004970:Estrone / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D020738:Leptin / Q000097:blood; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010507:Periodicity; D011085:Polycystic Ovary Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D012738:Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin; D020738:Leptin; D012738:Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin; D004970:Estrone; D000735:Androstenedione; D004958:Estradiol; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone