Wow. That article is really interesting. What I think the study is trying to prove is that Type 2 diabetes is related to fertility. The theory is that before industrialization malnutrition and famine was much more prevalent than it is now, so there was a need for women to be able to be fertile and conceive with a much lower body weight. So PCOS wouldn't have been a problem then. It only is now because industrialization has made wide spread increases in body weight possible.
It makes sense when you think about women who don't have enough body fat to ovulate, like malnourished women or some athletes. It sounds like women with PCOS's bodies haven't caught up to industrialization yet. I don't think they're trying to say that the incidence of PCOS will decrease because it will be bred out (women with PCOS won't have children and won't pass on their genes), but that the human body will adapt to industrialization. I'm not sure how their going to equate that with type 2 diabetes and heart disease decreasing from epidemic proportions, unless they're arguing that these conditions are always tied to PCOS. I mean I know that PCOS can lead to type 2 diabetes and heart disease but they also exist on their own. I'm definitely going to look up the study, that's facsinating.
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No PCOS diagnosis yet...
Feel free to ask me about hyperprolactinemia though, just had my prolactinoma removed through brain surgery. Happier and healthier already...
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