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. 2021 May 5;22(9):4905. doi: 10.3390/ijms22094905

Table 1.

Diagnostic Criteria of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Year Institute Consensus Criteria
1990 NICHD/NIH Patient demonstrates both:

  1. Clinical and/or biochemical hyperandrogenism, and

  2. Oligo-ovulation or chronic anovulation
2003 ESHRE/ASRM
(Rotterdam)		 Patient demonstrates at least two of three criteria:

  1. Oligo-or chronic anovulation

  2. Clinical and/or biochemical hyperandrogenism

  3. Polycystic ovarian morphology
2006 AES Patient demonstrates both:

  1. Clinical hyperandrogenism and/or biochemical hyperandrogenism, and

  2. Oligo-anovulation and/or polycystic ovaries

NIH/NICH: National Institute of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Disease ESHRE/ASRM: European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology/American Society for Reproductive Medicine; AES: Androgen Excess Society.