Table 1.

Comparison of patients’ characteristics in both groups (mean ± standard deviation)

Parameters	PCOS	Control	P value	95% Confidence Interval
Number of cases	39	68
Age(years)	28.6 ± 0.49	29.5 ± 0.34	0.15	(-2.04, 0.30)
BMI (kg/m2)	26.1 ± 0.56	22.5 ± 0.43	< 0.01**	(2.23, 5.06)
Duration of infertility (years)	3.4 ± 1.0	3.5 ± 1.80	0.99	(0.02, 0.61)
Fasting blood glucose	5.5 ± 0.21	5.1 ± 0.06	0.03*	(0.04, 0.74)
base-FSH (mIU/ml)	5.54 ± 0.27	4.70 ± 0.17	0.05*	(-1.58, -0.09)
base-LH (mIU/ml)	3.80 ± 0.27	7.00 ± 0.49	0.01**	(2.17, 4.23)
base-T (nmol/l)	0.98 ± 0.04	1.41 ± 0.11	0.01**	(0.23, 0.61)

*p < 0.05

**p < 0.01