Lead Sponsor

University of Virginia

Age

7 - 18 years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

•overweight (\>85th BMI%) females
•Early to late puberty (expected age range 7-18)
•Hyperandrogenemic (free testosterone greater than 2.5 standard deviations above the mean for normal control subjects of the same Tanner Stage)
•Screening labs within age-appropriate normal range, with the exception of a mildly low hematocrit (see below) and the hormonal abnormalities inherent in obesity which could include mildly elevated luteinizing hormone (LH), lipids, testosterone, prolactin, DHEAS, E2, glucose, and insulin and decreased follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and/or sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG)

•Screening labs outside of age-appropriate normal range
•Hemoglobin \<12 mg/dL and hematocrit\<36% (Subjects will be offered the opportunity to take iron supplementation for 60 days if their hematocrit is slightly low (33-36%) (suggestive of iron deficiency anemia) and will then return for retesting of their hemoglobin/hematocrit. If still \<36%, they will be excluded.)
•Morning Cortisol \<5 g/dL
•17-hydroxyprogesterone \>295 ng/dL
•History of Cushing's syndrome or adrenal insufficiency
•Pregnant

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