ESPE Abstracts

Background: It is difficult to define the laboratory finding of hyperandrogenism and associate it with clinical findings in children and adolescents. Androgen levels can be high in obesity, hirsutism, and PCOS. The free androgen index (FAI) is a simple ratio used to evaluate the biologically active testosteroneObjective and hypotheses: Our aim was to determine the FAI in adolescent females and to evaluated how this index is influenced in adolescents diag...