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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/article-V15-pcos.jpg” title_text=”article-V15-pcos” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ z_index_tablet=”500″ box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_vertical_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” box_shadow_spread_tablet=”0px”][\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][et_pb_fullwidth_code admin_label=”Text – Fullwidth Leader Text” module_id=”fullwidth-leader-text” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ z_index_tablet=”500″]There is a less-known medical syndrome that causes more than half its sufferers to develop diabetes before the age of 40. They are likely to be overweight, but that\u2019s not the major source of their diabetic condition. Rather, they have polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS.<\/pee>[\/et_pb_fullwidth_code][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Body Content” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#509aa6″ header_font_size=”40px” header_line_height=”40px” header_font_size_tablet=”” header_font_size_phone=”30px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” header_letter_spacing_last_edited=”off|phone” header_line_height_tablet=”” header_line_height_phone=”30px” header_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” z_index_tablet=”500″ text_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” text_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” text_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” link_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” link_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” link_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” ul_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” ul_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” ul_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” ol_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” ol_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” ol_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” quote_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” quote_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” quote_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_2_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_2_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_2_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_3_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_3_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_3_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_4_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_4_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_4_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_5_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_5_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_5_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” header_6_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=”0px” header_6_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=”0px” header_6_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=”1px” box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_vertical_tablet=”0px” box_shadow_blur_tablet=”40px” box_shadow_spread_tablet=”0px”]<\/p>\n

The typical PCOS patient also has high blood pressure and a vitamin D deficiency. Because this is a disease only afflicting women of child-bearing age, they will have irregular or absent menstrual cycles, high levels of male hormones, and a tendency to develop ovarian cysts. Statistically, they also face a higher risk of developing heart disease and cancer of the uterine lining. But that\u2019s not all. Researchers are beginning to see a correlation between PCOS and COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Dr. Katherine Sherif, chief of Women\u2019s Health at Jefferson University\u2019s Department of Medicine, and an expert in PCOS, says women with the syndrome are considered \u201c[a] potentially high-risk group\u201d for the virus. Why hasn\u2019t that designation been made known before? It\u2019s almost certainly because this \u201clifelong metabolic disease\u201d is exclusive to women. \u201cIt\u2019s seen as some reproductive issue that is not clinically relevant,\u201d says Dr. Wiebke Arlt, director of the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research at the University of Birmingham, England. \u201cBut that\u2019s not correct,\u201d she told CNN Health, \u201cthe higher the metabolic risk is, the higher the risk is to catch COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers at Birmingham University found that women with PCOS were 51% more likely to contract a confirmed or suspected COVID-19<\/strong> infection than those without the condition. Unfortunately, even after screening out the effects of diabetes in the study group, women with PCOS were still 28% more likely to have confirmed or suspected COVID-19. Because COVID-19 is more than just one disease, with cases varying widely in severity and length, researchers say the next step in understanding its apparent correlation with PCOS is getting primary care physicians to take PCOS itself more seriously as a metabolic condition. PCOS patients who get COVID-19 shouldn\u2019t automatically be told that their weight exacerbated the infection. Instead, it could be that their excess male hormones set up the conditions for COVID-19 to attack, just as it does in men with high testosterone levels. Or that the chronic inflammation that\u2019s present with PCOS created the ideal environment for a \u201ccytokine storm,\u201d where the body\u2019s immune system joins the virus in attacking healthy tissue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bottom line for now? If you have PCOS and you\u2019re worried that it makes you more vulnerable to COVID-19, please talk to your health care practitioner; they may be completely unaware of the correlation hypotheses developing in research circles.<\/p>\n

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The typical PCOS patient also has high blood pressure and a vitamin D deficiency. Because this is a disease only afflicting women of child-bearing age, they will have irregular or absent menstrual cycles, high levels of male hormones, and a tendency to develop ovarian cysts. 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