“…An additional 58 studies were excluded for the following reasons: 1) Less than 25 subjects with PCOS were included in 14 studies (2,49,54,57,67,69,78,82,107,118,121,135,141,147); 2) No controls were included in 28 studies (51,56,66,68,71,74,77,80,81,84–87,95,98,100,102,105,112,115,119,120, 123,126,139,143,148,152); 3) Patients and controls were also included in ulterior extended series by the same authors in 14 studies (7,35,58,92–94,101,110,113,116,125,131,149,150); 4) CRP concentrations were measured as a function of a polymorphism in the gene encoding the progesterone receptor, and not in PCOS and controls separately in 1 study (73); 5) It was unclear whether CRP was measured using a high sensitivity assay in 1 study, and there was no response from the corresponding author to a request for clarification (137). …”