Siyuan Zheng, En Liu, Ying Zhang, Tao Long, Xin Liu, Yi Gong, Tingting Mai, Huanling Shen, Hui Chen, Rong Lin, Yongxiong Zheng, Yijuan Xie, Fang Wang
The study was to investigate circulating zinc-α2-glycoprotein (ZAG) concentrations in women with PCOS, and changes in ZAG levels after exenatide or metformin treatment. One hundred eighty-two women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) who met the 2003 Rotterdam diagnostic criteria and 150 controls without PCOS were recruited. We partitioned women with PCOS into groups according to body mass index or blood glucose concentrations, determined serum ZAG, anthropometric parameters, metabolic and endocrine indicators, and inflammatory markers, and statistically analyzed the results...
June 28, 2019: Endocrine Journal