“…Search results Figure 1 presents the search strategy and study selection. Of 5236 records retrieved through searching databases 30 studies including 17 population based [2,3,7,19,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] and 11 non-population based studies [4,5,10,34,[49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56] were selected for the final analyses. Twenty-four studies assessed a population of reproductive age patients with PCOS [2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 34-38, 40, 41, 43-47, 49-51, 53-56], 4 studies-menopausal/aging women [19,39,52,57], and two studies-both age groups of patients (reproductive and menopausal/aging women) [4,48].…”