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Suspected ontogeny of a recently described hypo-androgenic PCOS-like phenotype with advancing age.

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BACKGROUND:A recent report described a new PCOS-like phenotype in lean older infertile women, and was characterized by high age-specific anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) but hypo- rather than the expected hyper-androgenism. The hypo-androgenism was, furthermore, characterized of, likely, adrenal origin and autoimmune etiology. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We extracted data on 708 consecutive infertility patients, and separated them into three age-strata, <35, 36-42, and >42 years. In each stratum, we investigated how levels of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and testosterone (T) interrelate between high-AMH (AMH ≥ 75th quantile) and normal AMH (25th-75th quantile) and low-T (total testosterone ≤19.0 ng/dL), normal-T (19.0-29.0 ng/dL) and high-T (>29.0 ng/dL). High-AMH cycles were presumed to reflect PCOS-like patients. Routine in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle outcomes and clinical phenotypes of patients were then compared between groups with AMH and T as statistical variables. RESULTS:This hypo-androgenic PCOS-like phenotype already exists in age stratum <35 years. It appears to arise from a lean, at very young ages hyper-androgenic PCOS phenotype that develops in comparison to controls (likely autoimmune-induced) insufficiency of the adrenal zona reticularis (low-T and low-DHEAS) and zona fasciculata (low-C), and is characterized by frequent evidence of autoimmunity. A degree of adrenal insufficiency, thus, concomitantly appears to affect adrenal androgen and, to lesser degrees, glucocorticoid production (mineralocorticoids were not investigated). CONCLUSIONS:Here investigated new PCOS-like phenotype demonstrates features compatible with what under Rotterdam criteria has been referred to as PCOS phenotype-D. If confirmed, the observation that the ontogeny of this phenotype already at young ages is, likely, driven by adrenal autoimmunity, supports the position of the androgen excess and PCOS society that the etiology of phenotype-D differs from that of classical hyper-androgenic PCOS of mostly ovarian etiology.

journal_name

Endocrine

journal_title

Endocrine

authors

Gleicher N,Kushnir VA,Darmon SK,Wang Q,Zhang L,Albertini DF,Barad DH

doi

10.1007/s12020-017-1498-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-03-01 00:00:00

pages

661-676

issue

eissn

1355-008X

issn

1559-0100

pii

10.1007/s12020-017-1498-8

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pub_type

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Suspected ontogeny of a recently described hypo-androgenic PCOS-like phenotype with advancing age.