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This is the fertility Friday podcast, episode number 626.

Today I'm sharing a brand new episode in our BAM research series, and the paper in question today is called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, the new name for PCOS, a multi-step global consensus

process. So if you have been on the interwebs or the social medias, you have probably seen

mention of this landmark decision. And since we are doing the FAM research series, I thought that this would be a

great paper to talk a little bit about this week. It's so interesting to see such a big change

being made. According to the paper itself, this change came after 11 years and over 22,000 patients and clinicians who've been surveyed,

weighing in on this. So this has been in the process for quite some time. And it's interesting

because I'm curious to see what people have to say about it, what people think about it, if people think it's going to make a difference, if they think it's interesting because I'm curious to see what people have to say about it, what people

think about it, if people think it's going to make a difference, if they think it's maybe

changing a name isn't the biggest change they needed to make.

But what we're going to talk about is the paper itself and the rationale behind making these

changes and some of the new research and even diagnostic criteria and

criteria that have come out in recent years. So it's interesting because many of us are

familiar with the statistic that it takes an average of nearly 20 years for new research to become public practice.

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