Our Mission
PCOS Together's mission is to improve our understanding of health outcomes and health care in women with and without PCOS in Canada. The focus is on cardiometabolic risk, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and improving health care in those with PCOS.
Our Research
PCOS Together is a research program aimed at understanding the health status and improving the health and health care of women with PCOS. To do this we are trying to understand the health risks and long term health outcomes in women with PCOS. We have found that women with PCOS in Alberta are at 2 and 3 fold higher risk for developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. We are establishing methods to detect early disease risk in women with PCOS. We are also undertaking clinical interventions to treat high-risk women with PCOS in the prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Our Studies
We have several studies that you can learn more about:
- Heart health in women with and without PCOS
- Understanding health care and nutrition services in women with PCOS
- Health outcomes in women with and without PCOS
- Fish oil-metformin improves blood lipids in high-risk women with PCOS
- Eating habits and disordered eating patterns in those with and without PCOS
- Tracking early cardiovascular disease progression in young women with and without PCOS
- Fish oil combined metformin therapy to reduce blood lipids and early cardiovascular disease progression in high-risk women with PCOS
- Establishing a Primary Pathway to Care to Improve Health Outcomes in High-Risk Women with Obesity and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
YouTube: What is researcher Dr. Donna Vine doing to change healthcare for women?
Surveying the Silence: Alberta Women's Health Foundation Report, February 1, 2023
For the full report from the Alberta Women's Health Foundation, Surveying the Silence, please click the following link: https://www.albertawomenshealthfoundation.org/our-impact/surveying-the-silence
PCOS Together in the UofA Folio, September 19, 2022
For the full article click the following link: More awareness, education needed to better treat polycystic ovary syndrome | Folio (ualberta.ca)
Social Media
PCOS Tool Box
1. Navigating the Healthcare System
2. Nutrition Resources
3. Mental Health Resources
4. Women's Heart Health Awareness
5. Advocating for Yourself
6. Androgen Excess & PCOS Society Resources (AE-PCOS)
7. Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA)
8. Endocrine Society
9. MCHRI PCOS Guideline & Resources
10. APP: Ask PCOS
11. PCOS FAQ
Podcast on PCOS and PCOS Together Research: