Table 4.

Prevalence of metabolic abnormalities in adolescents with PCOS categorized by different BMI

	Rotterdam criteria		NIH criteria
BMI	< 85th	≥ 85th	< 85th	≥ 85th
Number of subjects	85	43	57	33
IFG	2.4	0	3.5	0
IGT	7.1	16.3	10.5	15.2
pre-diabetes	9.4	16.3	14.0	15.2
HIN	10.6	67.4 ***	12.3	69.7 ***
IR	32.9	74.4 ***	28.1	72.7 ***
Hypercholesterolemia	2.4	9.3	3.5	9.1
Elevated LDL	1.2	11.6*	1.8	12.1
Low HDL	8.2	25.6**	10.5	27.3 *
Hypertriglyceridemia	3.5	23.3 **	3.5	27.3**
Dyslipidemia	14.1	39.5**	17.5	42.4 *
Central obese	0	60.5 ***	0	66.7 ***
Raised BP	0	19.4**	0	18.5 *
MS	0	14.0 **	0	18.2**

Abbreviations as in Table 3.

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001 vs. the "BMI < 85th" value.