GS ne of the earliest studies to demonstrate a relationship between obesity and reproductive
function was reported by Mitchell and Rogers." Obese women with anovulation were given
dietary counseling. The majority of women losing weight resumed cyclic menstruation; those
who failed to lose weight remained oligomenorrheic. While the report was relatively
anecdotal, it laid the groundwork for subsequent investigations of the relationship of obesity
and anovulation. Two decades later, Hartz et al. confirmed the correlation between obesity …