Prevalencia y fenotipos de Síndrome de Ovario Poliquístico en Latinoamérica

Abstract

Abstract: PCOS is one of the most frequent endocrinopathies in all women of childbearing age, it can encompass several problems, not only physical but also psychological, dermatological and social, the phenotypes can appear as the disease evolves. In the present research work, we seek to know the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and the most frequent phenotypes, through the bibliographic search of different articles in the different biomedical databases such as: PubMed, LILACS, Google Scholar, WOS and Scielo. It is important to emphasize that not all Latin American countries have found studies related to this pathology, except for Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, El Salvador, Ecuador, Paraguay and Costa Rica. In some cases, other studies from more developed countries are taken as a reference and even more so with randomized studies in various patients, still developing this pathology through cohort or case-control studies. As a main result we have that the Latin American countries considered for this work have a high prevalence of PCOS, however, it is recommended to develop more studies.