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Determining the time androgens and sex hormone-binding globulin take to return to baseline after discontinuation of oral contraceptives in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a prospective study.

Sánchez LA, Pérez M, Centeno I, David M, Kahi D, Gutierrez E

In this study, discontinuation of oral contraceptive pills in women with polycystic ovary syndrome was followed by the return of all measured androgens and sex hormone-binding globulin levels to basal values after 8 weeks. These observations are pertinent to the measurement of androgens and sex hormone-binding globulin levels in subjects who currently are taking oral contraceptive pills and have symptoms that are related to polycystic ovary syndrome.

Published 16 March 2007 in Fertil Steril, 87(3): 712-4.
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