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## Background: To estimate the prevalence of polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) in chinese women comprehensively and to provide references to prevent pcos. ## Methods: China national knowledge infrastructure, wanfang data, china science and technology journal database, chinese biology medicine, pubmed, embase, web of science, central, cinahl were searched to collect studies on the prevalence of pcos from database inception from march 31, 2020. two reviewers independently screened literature according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the articles, extracted data, and tested the risk of bias of the included studies. then stata 15.1 software performed a meta-analysis. begg's and egger's method were used to assess the risk of publication bias. ## Results: A total of 69 studies were involved, including 154,599 participants, 12,845 patients developed pcos. the prevalence of pcos was 10.01% (95% ci: 8.31% to 11.89%). subgroup analysis showed that the prevalence of pcos in different regions was as follows: 13.35% in the west, 7.82% in the east, 14.24% in the middle, and 8.68% in the north-east. subgroup analysis by occupation/status: the prevalence rates of workers, students, med
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- Author
- Qiao Wu; Jing Gao; Dingxi Bai; Zhi Yang; Qing Liao
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)