Polycystic ovary syndrome and diabetes: Researchers find out why the two are linked
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Nearly 50 percent of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) develop pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes before the age of 40, but the reasons for the correlation was unclear. Researchers report in a new study that inflammation is the cause for the increased diabetes risk in women with PCOS.