… or normal women. The failure of dexamethasone to suppress plasma free androgens to
normal levels in amenorrheic, hirsute women is probably due to overproduction of androgen by …

… group of healthy women in terms … hirsute women,' a subject which has not been investigated
to any depth in the pawz4 The hirsute women in our series had accepted an anti-androgen …

… the plasma androgen levels in some of these hirsute women. … Plasma androgen levels of
hirsute women were found to vary … Figttre 1 shows patients in whom androgen levels tended to …

… role played by androgens in the menstrual dysfunction of nonhirsute and hirsute women,
we … concentrations and urinary excretion of androgens, the circulating levels of 17jj-estradiol, …

… hirsute patients do not show evidence of detectable androgen excess or endocrine imbalance,
as in women … diagnosed in hirsute patients who have normal serum androgen levels and …

… of serum androgens to relative body weight in hirsute women. Our data are consistent with
the studies on serum androgens in nonhirsute eumenorrheic women: the levels of serum T …

… Idiopathic hirsutism is defined as the presence of hirsutism in the absence of elevated
circulating androgen levels in women with regular ovulatory menses and no other endocrine …

… on androgen levels in blood of hirsute women, J. Steroid Biochem., 12 (1980) 499-501. 5
Frankenhaeuser, M., Psychoneuroendocrine sex differences in adaptation to the psychosocial …

… Resultant androgen blood levels are even lower than observed in the non-obese population…
similarities of androgen production and metabolism in obese and hirsute women, including …

… levels … women, and their levels are depressed into the normal range by bromocriptine.16
To evaluate this hypothesis, we assayed serum PRL and plasma androgens in hirsute women, …