Cognitive disorder in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: A remote complication

摘要

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous disease and most likely includes a number of distinct disease processes with similar clinical phenotypes but different pathophysiologic mechanisms. It cannot be a single disease entity caused by a single molecular defect. Ghazeeri et al have assayed cognitive states in adolescent PCOS girls aged 14-18 years for the first time and found significant difference in cognitive levels between the study group and the control group and they thought the latency of androgen as well as its contribution to psychiatric illnesses in women with PCOS could be the major factor for development of psychiatric symptoms.