PCOS is associated with dyslipidemia, hypertension independent of BMI, and increased subclinical atherosclerosis.

“so elevations and blood pressure and dyslipidemia patterns so we see this the Triad of dyslipidemia with the elevated LDL elevated triglycerides and low HDL this metabolic syndrome pattern PCOS is associated with hypertension and incident hypertension and this is actually independent of BMI but obesity increases the risk and makes the risk greater and there is an association not only with increased subclinical atherosclerosis I recently published a meta-analysis where we showed that with a PCOS were twofold more likely to have coronary calcium they're also more likely to carotid plaque”