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Hence, this study was conducted to report the prevalence of hirsutism and population-specific cut-offs for mFGS in South-Indian women.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this cross-sectional, community-based study, adult women in reproductive age (18\u201340 years) were screened for hirsutism by two trained medical students. Hirsutism was assessed using the mFGS and case record file.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 453 women were included in the study [age: 22.15 \u00b1 5.27 years; body mass index (BMI): 22.5 \u00b1 3.58 kg\/m2]. The median (IQR) mFGS was 1(0-3); only eight participants (1.8%) had mFGS \u22658, and all these eight women had at least another PCOS-related feature (irregular menstrual cycles and\/or topical therapy-resistant acne). The median (IQR) mFGS in the PCOS phenotype group (n = 52), non-PCOS-phenotype group (n = 401), non-obese group (&lt;25 kg\/m2), non-PCOS-phenotype group (n = 322), obese group (\u2265 25 kg\/m2), non-PCOS-phenotype group (n = 79), overweight group (BMI: 23\u201325 kg\/m2), non-PCOS-phenotype group (n = 74), normal BMI group (&lt;23 kg\/m2), and non-PCOS-phenotype group (n = 248) were 4 (1\u20136), 1 (0\u20132), 1 (0\u20132), 2 (1\u20133), 1 (0\u20132), and 1 (0\u20132), respectively. The 97.5\n                      <jats:sup>th<\/jats:sup>\n                      centile mFGS in all groups except the PCOS phenotype group and the obese and non-PCOS phenotype groups was 5.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We propose a new mFGS cut-off of 5 in the South-Indian population for evaluation of hirsutism, and the prevalence rates of hirsutism in the South-Indian population were 1.8% and 9.9% using mFGS of \u22658 and \u22655 to define hirsutism, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/ijem.ijem_419_23","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,28]],"date-time":"2024-08-28T13:22:37Z","timestamp":1724851357000},"page":"391-396","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Normative Data for Modified 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