Open AccessThere is no association between premature ovarian insufficiency and levels of fetuin-A/α2-Heremans-Schmid glycoprotein
Author(s) -
A. Seval Özgü-Erdinç,
Zeynep Aslı Oskovi Kaplan,
Yaprak Engin-Üstün,
Nafiye Yılmaz,
Gülçin Yıldırım,
Aytekin Tokmak,
Kudret Erkenekli,
Salım Erkaya,
Dilek Uygur
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of human reproductive sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-1208
pISSN - 1998-4766
DOI - 10.4103/jhrs.jhrs_104_19
Subject(s) - premature ovarian insufficiency , fetuin , glycoprotein , premature ovarian failure , medicine , endocrinology , biology , biochemistry
Fetuin-A is a well-known negative acute-phase protein and has been used liberally to predict vascular disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between serum human fetuin-A/alpha2-Heremans-Schmid glycoprotein levels and idiopathic premature ovarian insufficiency (POI).