Ranges of Body Mass Index (BMI) in Iraqi Women Patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Abstract

Objective: To estimate the relationship between polycystic ovary syndrome with weight gain andobesity in asample of Iraqi women through the values of their body mass index. Aim: A comparative, descriptive investigation. Materials and Methods: This study performed at Kamal Al-Samaray Hospital in Baghdad's infertility care and IVF center from August 2022 to October 2022 on totally 80 infertile women aged 18-45 years with clinical characteristics of oligo-/amenorrhea, hirsutism. PCOS patients were identified using the Rotterdam 2003 criteria and SPSS was applied for statistical data analysis. Results: It showed that women with PCOS have differentBMI values. The high percentage of BMI was greater than 30 kg/m2 which refer to obesity, the second BMI was between 25-29.9 kg/m2 which means over weight and the third was between 20 to 24.9 kg/m2 which means optimum weight and finally less than 20 kg/m2 which mean leanness and the differences between the groups are highly significant (P≤0.0001). Conclusions: It is concluded from this study that as compared to women without PCOS, the prevalence of obesity and overweight was substantially greater than optimum weight and leanness.