Table 1.

Clinical features and reproductive hormone levels in PCOS brothers and control men

Variables	Brothers n=23	Control n=23	P
Age (yr)	30 [21, 34]	31 [25, 37]	0.21
BMI (kg/m2)	28.1 [22.9, 32.3]	26.7 [23.4, 30.3]	0.81
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	118 [110, 130]	115 [110, 126]	0.64
Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	72 [62, 82]	72 [70, 78]	0.95
Testosterone (ng/dl)a	522 [419, 616]	512 [433, 593]	0.39
unbound Testosterone (ng/dl)a	241 [219, 302]	255 [166, 310]	0.64
DHEAS (ng/ml)b	2820 [1704, 3697]	2827 [2405, 3090]	0.47
Fasting glucose (mg/dl)c	87 [81, 97]	88 [82, 92]	0.88
2 hour post-challenge glucose (mg/dl)c	115 [72, 123]	92 [77, 111]	0.26
Fasting insulin (μU/ml)d	13 [10, 17]	11 [8, 19]	0.40
2 hour post-challenge insulin (μU/ml)d	40 [21, 79]	28 [22, 47]	0.51

Values are the median [25%, 75% interquartile range]; P-value by Wilcoxon signed ranks test;

^ato convert to nanomoles/l, multiply by 0.00347;

^bto convert to micromoles, multiply by 0.002714;

^cn=17, to convert to millimoles/l, multiply by 5.55;

^dn=17, to convert to picomoles/l, multiply by 7.175.