Clinical signs of androgen excess as risk factors for coronary artery disease
- 1 August 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Fertility and Sterility
- Vol. 54 (2), 255-259
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0015-0282(16)53699-1
Abstract
Women with androgen excess have been found to have higher triglycerides and lower high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations than nonhirsute women and are presumed to be at increased risk of coronary artery disease. However, definitive data linking androgen excess with coronary artery disease is lacking. We evaluated 102 women coming to coronary artery catheterization for signs and symptoms of androgen excess. Hirsutism was found more commonly in those women with confirmed coronary artery disease (.chi.2 = 10.11). Waist:hip ratio (an index of android fat distribution) was associated with hirsutism (by ANOVA, F-test) and with coronary artery disease (t-test). The strongest associations were found in older women (aged .gtoreq. 60). Androgen excess in women may signal risk for coronary artery disease.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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