Doctors evaluate hirsutism by checking for endocrine and adrenal causes, including Cushing’s disease and certain adrenal conditions. These causes are rare. Most cases ultimately fit either polycystic ovarian disease or idiopathic hirsutism. Idiopathic hirsutism involves testing for known causes and finding no identifiable cause. When results are negative, clinicians assume no specific cause is identified. Possible explanations include familial patterns or differences related to ethnicity.
"Doctors may also want to rule out issues like Cushing's disease or certain adrenal conditions, noted Sistla. "Those are all rare.""
""The vast majority end up being either polycystic ovarian or something called idiopathic hirsutism, which is essentially, we check for all these things, and if all of it comes back negative, then we assume that we don't have a cause that we identify. It could be something that runs in the family or, again ... ethnicity dependent," said Sistla."
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