Posted on 05/12/2026 2:45:16 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – a condition that affects one in eight women – has been renamed.
The hormonal disorder, estimated to impact 170 million women worldwide, will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS).
The name change was published in the Lancet and announced at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday…The renaming was spearheaded by the endocrinologist Prof Helena Teede, the director of Melbourne’s Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation…
The first thing Maddy Mavrikis was told by her GP when she was diagnosed with PCOS at 15 was that she would probably never have children…Mavrikis initially went to her doctor because of irregular periods, and a blood test revealed she had high levels of androgens…
People can be diagnosed with PCOS without ovaries that appear “polycystic” – Mavrikis’ ultrasound revealed she didn’t have any…
The doctor also found she had insulin resistance, which affects most women (about 85%) with PCOS...
Teede says the new name “moves away from the incorrect focus on cysts … to recognising this is a much broader condition”. The effects of PMOS on the body “are virtually all endocrine – hormonal…”
Another, Rosemary,* says when she first asked her GP about whether she might have PCOS, he told her a diagnosis wasn’t going to be useful unless she wanted to have children – which at 17 she didn’t.
He also told her it was unlikely she had the condition because she wasn’t overweight and didn’t have the “look” of a girl with PCOS.
When she was eventually diagnosed, Rosemary says her care in the UK’s NHS was “patchy at best” …
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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Your image has the old name.
Yes the new name was announced just in the last 24 hrs. So it will take time for related materials and other data/stats to be updated.
A meat-free high protein diet?
That chart may have been written by doctors from India LoL. To be sure, there is a high cholesterol propensity in women with PCOS — and precisely within the cohort whose low body weight would suggest otherwise.
There is a strong knowledge gap in cardiology when it comes to gender. Male hearts are not the same as female hearts...Especially when it comes to the role hormones play for women.
That being said: lean meats and fish should be included!
M6 17 yro dtr was told she would never have children...happily at age 38 she became pregnant after 15 yrs of marriage....she has a bouncy happy 2yro to prove it.
That’s wonderful. Congratulations :)!
This chart makes a lot of sense.
Like most nut job liberals, they hope by changing the name of diseases will make them easier to detect and easier to treat. /s
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