Table 2.

Comparison of mean number of atretic and cystic primordial, growing, and graafian follicles and corpus luteum in PCO and control groups.

	Control	PCO
Mean number of atretic primordial follicles	35.81 ± 1.34	52.27 ± 1.01***
Mean number of atretic growing follicles	52.45 ± 0.57	81.18 ± 0.91***
Mean number of atretic graafian follicles	8.72 ± 0.33	27.36 ± 0.38***
Mean number of cystic primordial follicles	0	0
Mean number of cystic growing follicles	0.18 ± 0.12	7.72 ± 0.38***
Mean number of cystic graafian follicles	0.82 ± 0.18	10.9 ± 0.56***
Mean number of corpus luteum (CL)	5.27 ± 0.19	0.36 ± 0.15***

*represents a significant difference between control and PCO group.

The symbols represent statistical significance: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, and ***P < 0.001.