. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2014 Sep 23;27(6):356–359. doi: 10.1016/j.jpag.2014.01.104

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of PCOS subjects and obese controls

	PCOS	Controls	p
n	23	12
Age (years)	15.2 ± 1.84	14.08 ± 1.7	0.08
Ethnicity			0.74
Hispanic	18 (78.3%)	9 (75%)
Asian	3 (13%)	1 (8.3%)
Other^*	2 (8.7%)	2 (16.7%)
BMI (kg/m²) Z Score	2.07 ± 0.48	2.04 ± 0.25	0.84
Age at menarche (years)	11.63 ± 1.31	11.35 ± 1.45	0.6
Menstrual history			0.0001
Regular	2 (8.7%)	11 (91.7%)
Oligomenorrheic	14 (60.9%)	1 (8.3%)
Amenorrheic	7 (30.4%)	0
Acne present	15 (65.2%)	8 (66.7%)	0.18
Hirsute	17 (73.9%)	0	0.0001
Acanthosis nigricans present	18 (78.3%)	10 (83.3%)	0.8

Data are expressed as n (%) and mean ± SD.

Other = African American, Native American, or mixed ethnicity