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Androgen Excess and PCOS Society Guidelines
The Society is actively committed to improve the knowledge and the treatment of androgen excess diseases. It has promoted the publication of guidelines devoted to controversial aspects of these disorders.
1. Diagnosis of PCOS
Because of the ongoing controversy regarding the definition of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) the Androgen Excess & PCOS (AE-PCOS) Society charged a Task Force to review all available data and recommend an evidence-based definition. The evidence gathered was based on a systematic review of the published peer-reviewed medical literature. Based on the available data, it is was view of the Task Force that there should be acceptance of the original 1990 National Institutes of Health criteria with some modifications, taking into consideration the concerns expressed in the proceedings of the 2003 Rotterdam conference. A principal conclusion of the report is that PCOS should be firstly considered a disorder of androgen excess or hyperandrogenism. However, a minority of the Writing Committee considered the possibility that there are forms of PCOS without overt evidence of hyperandrogenism, but recognized that more data are required before validating this supposition. The position statement can be found at:
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2006; 91:4237-45
2. Glucose Intolerance in PCOS
The AE-PCOS Society recently published a position statement on glucose intolerance in PCOS. The position paper comprehensively reviews the literature, and offers evidence and rationale for its guidelines. The position paper recommends evaluating women with PCOS with an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) at initial visit, and then repeating the OGTT every 2 years if glucose tolerance was normal at baseline, or annually if impaired glucose tolerance was identified. The full position statement, along with recommended interventions for preventing glucose intolerance in PCOS, can be found at:
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2007; 92:4546-56
AE-PCOS Quarterly Literature Summary & Review
As a service to our members, the Society electronically publishes and emails to all members a quarterly literature summary and review, a listing of all citations regarding androgen excess disorders. A brief analytic review is also made of selected citations.
Editor of the Literature Summary and Review is Dr. Bulent Yildiz.
Click on the links below to download a past copy of the quarterly literature summary and review in PDF format.
AE-PCOS Quarterly Literature Review February 2008
AE-PCOS Bulletin
The Society electronically publishes the ‘AE-PCOS Bulletin’, a quarterly report on items of interest to the membership, including summary reports of past meetings, letters to the editor, and reviews of newsworthy items.
Editor of AE-PCOS Bulletin is Dr. Duarte Pignatelli.
Click on the links below to download a copy of last Bulletin in PDF format.
Members of the Society may require arrear copies of the Bulletin or copies of the different issues of the Literature Summary and Review to:
info@ae-society. org