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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Endocrine. 2016 Dec 21;55(3):907–913. doi: 10.1007/s12020-016-1210-4

Table 1.

Demographics and laboratory values in women with PCOS and controls, median and interquartile range (IQR, 25th-75th percentile)

Obese PCOS
(n=45		 Obese control
(n=33)		 p-value Lean PCOS
(n=20)		 Lean Control
(n=21)		 p-value Total
(n=119)
Age (years) 32 (26, 36) 34 (30, 38) 0.2 29 (24, 33) 28 (26, 32) 0.9 31 (26, 36)
BMI (kg/m2) 39.3 (35.1, 43.5) 38.7 (33.5, 41.5) 0.4 25.9 (23.2, 27.9) 22.3 (20.1, 24.3) <0.001 34.5 (26.1, 40.4)
Total ghrelin
(pg/mL) 		683 (587, 833) 852 (704, 1049) 0.005 1253 (889, 1821) 1012 (873, 1466) 0.3 850 (683, 1123)
AMH (ng/mL) 4.5 (2.6, 6.6) 2.9 (1.4, 4.7) 0.002 8.9 (4.0, 10.9) 5.0 (1.7, 6.9) 0.005 4.3 (2.4, 6.7)
Total testosterone (ng/dL) 58 (40, 86) 35 (22, 45) <0.001 55 (37, 70) 21 (10, 35) <0.001 43 (27, 62)
Insulin (uU/mL) 20.8 (15.7, 31.3) 15.2 (11.6, 19.7) 0.007 9.4 (6.7, 13.2) 1.0 (1.0, 8.4) 0.004 14.8 (7.9, 22.1)