Assessment of Symptoms, Pregnancy Outcome, and Health-Related Quality of Life among PCOS women Treated with Myo inositol and Metformin

Zainab Abdul Hameed Ibrahim; Manal Khaled Abdulrida; Rana Basil Razoqi

doi:10.32947/ajps.v23i3.1045

Authors

Zainab Abdul Hameed Ibrahim Clinical pharmacy department/ College of Pharmacy/Al mustansiriyah university, Baghdad, Iraq
Manal Khaled Abdulrida Department of clinical pharmacy/ collage of pharmacy/ Al mustansiriyah university/ Baghdad, Iraq
Rana Basil Razoqi Samarra general hospital/ Department of obstetrics and gynecology /Ministry of Health, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32947/ajps.v23i3.1045

Keywords:

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Myoinositol, Metformin, Health Related Quality of life.

Abstract

PCOS is a complicated endocrine disorder that mostly affects between 5% and 10% of women who are of reproductive age. Obesity, hyperandrogenism, and oligo- or anovulation are frequent clinical PCOS signs.

Objective: the study was designed to evaluate the effect of combining Metformin and Myoinositol; the main insulin-sensitizing drugs on improving symptoms and HRQOLQ in PCOS women.

Materials and Methods: A study was a prospective, interventional, comparative clinical study conducted on 54 patients (aged 18-40 y) who are divided into three groups: group1 patients allocated to receive Myo-inositol(4g), group2 patients allocated to receive Metformin(1g) and group3 patients allocated to receive Myo-inositol(4g) + Metformin(1g) all for 3 months. Baseline and after 3 months, patients’ information and health related quality of life were documented.

Result: Metformin and Myoinositol resulted in symptoms improvement within each study groups as (68.8%, 87.5% and 94.1%) for group 1,2 and 3 respectively, only 4 patients from all groups became pregnant. Also, significant change in HRQOLQ in all study groups after three months of treatment were reported.

Conclusion: combining Myoinositol with metformin results in improved PCOS symptoms and pregnancy outcome in addition to improved patient’s quality of life.

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