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ICMR PCOS Task Force raises objection to renaming of PCOS as PMOS

Srinagar, May 20 (UNI) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) PCOS Task Force has strongly objected to the proposed renaming of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) to “Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS),” calling it premature, regionally skewed, and lacking global clinical consensus.
In a joint statement, Prof. (Dr.) Mohd Ashraf Ganie, National Chief Coordinator of the ICMR PCOS Task Force and Director of Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), along with Principal Investigators Prof. Neena Malhotra of AIIMS New Delhi and Prof. Rakesh K. Sahay of Osmania Medical College, said the proposed nomenclature does not adequately reflect the global disease burden.
They argued the recent proposal—published in The Lancet and discussed at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague—appears to exclude large-scale epidemiological data from India and China, which together account for a significant share of PCOS cases worldwide. They said that any global renaming exercise must be based on broader, multi-continental datasets and inclusive scientific consensus.
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