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Inclusion Criteria: Women diagnosed with PCOS according to Rotterdam 2003 criteria National Institute of Health criteria. Age: \>18 \<40 years. Infertile women (primary or secondary infertility) Exclusion Criteria: Patients with history of diabetes mellitus (Type 1 or 2). Patients with liver or renal dysfunction; inflammatory diseases; autoimmune disease; cancer, acute cardiovascular event within last three months and uncontrolled endocrine or metabolic disease. Use of hormonal medications, lipid-lowering (statins, etc.), anti-obesity drugs or weight loss medications (prescription or OTC) and medications known to exacerbate glucose tolerance (such as isotretinoin, hormonal contraceptives, glucocorticoids, anabolic steroids) stopped for at least 8 weeks. Use of anti-androgens that act peripherally to reduce hirsutism such as 5-alpha reductase inhibitors stopped for at least 4 weeks. Patients at risk for volume depletion due to co-existing conditions or concomitant medications, such as loop diuretics should have careful monitoring of their volume status.