“…In contrast to normal weight subjects, overweight/ obese patients with PCOS had higher PAI-1 levels than BMI-matched controls, a finding that concurs with most previous studies [13][14][15][16]23]. However, plasma PAI-1 levels did not correlate with markers of IR in overweight/obese women with PCOS in our study and this is in contrast to previous reports [13,14,24,25].…”