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Polycystic Ovary syndrome is a condition in which women with polycystic ovaries also have one or more additional symptoms. It was first ‘discovered’ in 1935 by Doctors Stein and Leventhal and for many years was known as the Stein-Leventhal syndrome. Polycystic ovaries are common affecting twenty to thirty per cent of women and PCOS affects about ten to fifteen per cent.
The ovaries are a pair of female reproductive organs that produce eggs and female sex hormones. In individuals affected by PCOS hormonal inbalances in the production of oestrogens, progesterones and androgens lead to the presence of many small cysts in the ovaries. The cysts, usually no bigger than 8 millimetres each, are egg-containing follicles that have not developed properly and are arranged just below the surface of the ovaries.
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