Authors: Murat Api Beyhan Badoglu Aysu Akca Olus Api Husnu Gorgen Ahmet Cetin
Publish Date: 2008/08/02
Volume: 279, Issue: 4, Pages: 473-
Abstract
A crosssectional study of simultaneous mFG scoring design was used Observers did not make any interview with the subjects and were masked to the previous score results Analyses included percentage of agreement kappa coefficients the Bland and Altman plot confidence intervals minimum and maximum kappa coefficientsAgreement analysis demonstrated that the scores of the two physicians were quite concordant The mean kappa value for nine body area was 0744 and the highest kappa values from the upper back and the lowest kappa values from the upper lip revealed к = 0847 к = 0585 respectively The highest upper lip and the lowest arm mean range scores for the two researchers among the 9 areas were 146–155 and 017–012 respectively Only 686 and 678 of the mFG scores observed by each of the two observers were equal or below 8The mFG scoring system was found to be clinically useful The upper lip was observed to have the highest score of androgen sensitive area of the body as well as the highest interobserver variability The cutoff value to establish the diagnosis of hirsutism should be populationspecific
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