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Importantly, the cohort contained only normotensive patients that would normally be deemed low risk with no further intervention required.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec002\"><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study comprised 24 obese women with PCOS and 29 obese Control women. Transthoracic echocardiography was used to evaluate LV structure\/function. Basic clinical and metabolic data were collected for each participant consisting of age, BMI, blood pressure, fasting glucose, LDL-C, HLD-C, cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Exclusion criteria; BMI &lt; 30 g\/m<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>, type 2 diabetes, hypertension.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec003\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Both groups exhibited concentric remodelling of the LV posterior wall at a prevalence of ~20%, this associated with grade 1 diastolic dysfunction. Estimated LV mass\/height<jats:sup>2.7<\/jats:sup>was increased patients with PCOS (45 \u00b1 2.2 vs 37 \u00b1 1.6) with 33% exhibiting LV mass\/height<jats:sup>2.7<\/jats:sup>above ASE guidelines, compared to 7% in Controls. Furthermore, 25% of patients with PCOS were characterised with concentric hypertrophy, an alteration in LV geometry that was not observed in the Control group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec004\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess LV geometric patterns in obese women with PCOS. 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