 STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION:A retrospective study in 160 Taiwanese women with HA and 165 women without HA, with medical records reviewed from 2009 up to 2012. The hyperandrogenic women were classified into four groups TT, A4, FAI, and DHEA-S according to independent abnormally elevated androgen measures each above its cut-off value, and the groups were compared with each other and with controls. 