| Up to 15 million women and girls worlwide have PCOS, a complex hormonal disorder for which there is no cure. Not only does PCOS cause devastating short term effects such as infertility, obesity, acne, male patterned baldness and hirsutism, PCOS has a substantial negative impact on quality of life because of the disorders' multi-sympton conditions. Many women with PCOS are insulin resistant, a condition that raises the level of insulin circulating in the body and is a precursor to Type II Diabetes. In fact, women with PCOS have seven times the risk of other women for developing adult-onset diabetes, which in turn greatly increases their chance of having cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke and kidney problems. Women with PCOS are at a higher risk for developing endometrial cancer. |
