نویسندگان
Narges Zaimzadeh, Saiedeh Ziaie, Neda Mohammadzadeh, H Alizadeh Otaghvar, Azadeh Mottaghi
تاریخ انتشار
2018
جلد
25
نسخه
167
صفحات
87-96
توضیح
Background: The present study aimed to compare vitamin D dietary intake and its relationship with serum androgen components in four phenotypes of PCOS. Methods: 182 participants eligible for this five-group comparative study were selected by convenience sampling method. Then they were classified into five groups: A (n=41), B (n=33), C (n=40), D (n=37) and control (without PCOS) (n=31). Dietary intake assessment of vitamin D was carried out by a 168-item Food Frequency Questionnaire. Androgen components included the free androgen index (FAI), total testosterone (TT), and sex-hormone-binding-globulin (SHBG). Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS22 software and Kruskal-Wallis (KW) test followed by appropriate post hoc test, Mann-Whitney U (MW), and Spearman correlation test. Significant p value was considered 0.05 for KW and Spearman tests and 0.005 for MW (based on …