Evaluation of Fetuin-A level and related factors in obese adolescents

Abstract Inflammation is thought to be responsible for insülin resistance and fatty liver in obese cases. The contribution of fetuin-A the inflammation process is not clear. We aimed to evaluate fetuin-A levels in obese adolescents and to evaluate its relationship with anthropometric data, insulin levels and high-sensitive CRP. We found that there was no difference in fetuin-A levels between obese and healthy cases in the whole group. However, hs-CRP levels of obese patients were found to be significantly higher than healthy subjects. There was no difference in terms of fetuin-A and hs-CRP levels between the insulin-resistance and non-resistance group. There was no correlation between lipid parameters and fetuin-A levels. There was no difference in terms of fetuin-A and hs-CRP in cases with and without fatty liver. This may suggest that although systemic inflammation starts in obese patients, fetuin-A is not involved in this process or that the negative effect of fetuin-A on inflammation with other factors is still balanced in the adolescent age group. As a conclusion, further studies are needed to evaluate at what stage and how fetuin-A participates in systemic inflammation physiopathologically.