A new name, an old crisis: Metabolic dysfunction at the core of polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.

Affecting hundreds of millions of women worldwide, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS, formerly polycystic ovary syndrome) carries a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Here we discuss how renaming this disease reframes a profoundly misunderstood condition for which basic metabolic research remains critically underfunded and fragmented.