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Background: Polycystic ovarian syndrome is considered to be a multifaceted disease with a spectrum of manifestation affecting not only women of childbearing age group but also adolescent and post-menopausal women. Most prevalence studies in India prevalence of PCOS as 3.7 %-22.5%. Rotterdam consensus conferences, the revised diagnostics criteria includes any two of the following, oligomenorrhoea/anovulation, clinical and or biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism, polycystic ovaries on the USG and exclusion of other aetiologies such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, androgen secreting tumor and Cushing syndrome. Methods: Study was conducted in women of reproductive age group with PCOS attending gynaecological OPD at RNT medical college Udaipur. It is prospective comparative study. Total 290 women included. Study was done to know the association of polycystic ovarian syndrome with the socio-demographic profile of the patient. Results: Mean age of the study participants was 22.74±3.81 years. About 30.7% are having hirsutism, 66.9% overweight, 21.7% acne, 17.2% infertility, 5.9% amenorrhea, 82.4% oligomenorrhea and 21.4% obesity. 21.7% have acne among the study participants. Around 30.7% had hirsutism. Conclusions: PCOS was shown to have a very high prevalence in women between the ages of 21 and 30, with a mean age of 23 years. These women came from a middle socioeconomic level and were living in urban regions with a majority of them being students and housewives who had sedentary lifestyle. It was observed that the most frequent clinical symptoms of PCOS in women were oligomenorrhea, weight gain, infertility, hirsutism, and acne.
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