title: Diabetes risk score in the diagnostic categories of polycystic ovary syndrome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and in different phenotypes of PCOS and controls.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study.
  
  
  METHODS
  General community.
  
  
  METHODS
  Overweight premenopausal women with National Institutes of Health (NIH) PCOS (n = 29), non-NIH PCOS (n = 25), or controls (n = 27).
  
  
  METHODS
  No intervention provided.
  
  
  METHODS
  Finnish Diabetes Risk Score, anthropometrics, oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), glucose, insulin, and reproductive hormone levels.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The women with NIH PCOS had higher adiposity, abdominal adiposity and 120-minute OGTT glucose. The women with NIH and non-NIH PCOS had elevated 120-minute OGTT insulin compared with controls. The women with NIH (11.3 ± 0.7) and non-NIH PCOS (10.4 ± 0.7) had similar diabetes risk scores, but both had higher diabetes risk score compared with controls (7.6 ± 0.8) maintained on adjustment for age and body mass index (BMI). The women with NIH (4%) and non-NIH PCOS (12%) had a lower prevalence of low risk of diabetes scores compared with controls (50%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report for the first time that women with NIH and non-NIH PCOS have similar Finnish Diabetes Risk Scores and elevated scores relative to controls independent of age and adiposity. Similar clinical screening and treatment practices for type 2 diabetes are warranted for both phenotypes of PCOS.
authors.affiliation: The Jean Hailes Clinical Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. lisa.moran@med.monash.edu.au
authors.forename: Lisa J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Moran
authors.forename: Boyd J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Strauss
authors.forename: Helena J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Teede
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D003940:Diagnostic Techniques, Endocrine; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011085:Polycystic Ovary Syndrome / Q000145:classification* / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012107:Research Design; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult