The ovulatory status was studied using a combination of serial transvaginal ultrasound investigations and progesterone measurements in the second half of the cycle in females with regular menstrual cycles or progesterone measurements one week before the expected onset of menstruation in females with oligomenorrhea. Amenorrheic patients were considered anovulatory if no anatomical abnormality was found.
Obesity has important health implications.
Among others, there is an increased risk to develop diabetes mellitus, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Postoperative morbidity, for example, is raised after cesarean section. A less well known complication of obesity among females is infertility. But not all obese females have PCOS and not all PCOS patients are obese. The aim of this study is to quantify the prevalence of obesity in an infertility population in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to correlate body weight with the occurrence of cycle disturbances and anovulation.