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Old 10-25-2008, 07:36 AM   #79 (permalink)
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The article says that perhaps ONE IN FIVE women in the UK have pcos. These numbers are a bit different from the '5-at most10%' of women that we hear in pamphlets and from Docs in the US.

Interesting...
I asked my doctor about the variance in the numbers because I've heard both too. She said because PCOS is a sydrome and women have such a variety of symptoms and not all at the same time or to the same degree its hard to pinpoint such an exact figure.
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