Case report
The Polycystic Ovary Syndrome – A Medical Condition but also an Important Psychosocial Problem
S. Eggers
S. Kirchengast
Abstract
PCOS, the leading cause of anovulatory infertility that affects up to one fifth of the
female population, is a complex chronic disease of genetic as well as environmental determination,
but still unclear etiology. Besides of infertility, PCOS leads to menstrual
dysfunctions, hirsutism and obesity – symptoms that are known to cause profound psychosocial
distress. The present paper review the problematic of etiology and symptom
expression of PCOS, which is not only a disease needing medical treatment but also a
psychosocial problem for the affected women. PCOS may not only coinduced by psychosocial
factors, the main symptoms of PCOS such as infertility, menstrual dysfunctions,
hirsutism and obesity cause by themselves increased psychosocial stress.
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Hrčak ID:
28461
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Publication date:
17.12.2001.
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