“… 14 , 16 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 After full-text assessment, 1 article was excluded because participants did not meet the inclusion criteria, 1 article was excluded because it did not have a parallel control and had incomplete outcomes, and 1 article was excluded because it did not report findings in English (eTable 3 in the Supplement ). Finally, 12 RCTs 14 , 16 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 were included in the meta-analysis. In total, 1123 women with PCOS were randomized, with 564 (50.2%) to metformin and 559 (49.8%) to control.…”