Pericardial Fat Relates to Disturbances of Glucose Metabolism in Women with the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, but Not in Healthy Control Subjects

Pericardial Fat Relates to Disturbances of Glucose Metabolism in Women with the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, but Not in Healthy Control Subjects

Objective. The objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship of cardiac fat depots with disturbances of the carbohydrate metabolism in women with PCOS. Methods. An oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was realized, and metabolic parameters were collected in 48 women with PCOS and i...

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Main Authors: Michael Leutner, Christian Göbl, Peter Wolf, Katharina Maruszczak, Latife Bozkurt, Helmut Steinbrecher, Ivica Just-Kukurova, Johannes Ott, Christian Egarter, Siegfried Trattnig, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
Series:International Journal of Endocrinology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5406128

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5406128

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