{"id":49621,"date":"2026-05-21T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49621"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:53:48","slug":"can-a-name-change-transform-pcos-outcomes-for-women-podcast-polyendocrine-metabolic-ovarian-syndrome-pmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49621","title":{"rendered":"Can a name change transform PCOS outcomes for women? \u2013 podcast | Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome \u2013 which affects as many as one in eight women \u2013 has been renamed. The condition is caused by high levels of androgens, which can lead to symptoms such as excess hair, weight gain and irregular periods. To understand why campaigners wanted it renamed, and what its new name \u2013 polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) \u2013 could mean for patients, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian\u2019s science correspondent, Nicola Davis, and Rachel, a campaigner from the charity Verity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome \u2013 which affects as many as one in eight women \u2013 has been renamed. The condition is caused by high levels of androgens, which can lead to symptoms such as excess hair, weight gain and irregular periods. To understand why campaigners wanted it renamed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[270,24201,3878,12138,1212,24569,515,24568,8027,8014,418],"class_list":{"0":"post-49621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-change","9":"tag-metabolic","10":"tag-outcomes","11":"tag-ovarian","12":"tag-pcos","13":"tag-pmos","14":"tag-podcast","15":"tag-polyendocrine","16":"tag-syndrome","17":"tag-transform","18":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}