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SUBMITTER: Costello M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6780967 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Costello Michael M Garad Rhonda R Hart Roger R Homer Hayden H Johnson Louise L Jordan Cailin C Mocanu Edgar E Qiao Jie J Rombauts Luk L Teede Helena J HJ Vanky Eszter E Venetis Christos C Ledger William W
Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) 20190910 9
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common cause of anovulatory infertility in women of reproductive age. Lifestyle change is considered the first line treatment for the management of infertile anovulatory women with PCOS, and weight loss for those who are overweight or obese. First line medical ovulation induction therapy to improve fertility outcomes is letrozole, whilst other less efficacious ovulation induction agents, such as clomiphene citrate, metformin, and metformin combined wi ...[more]