Fig. 1

The protein–protein interaction tool STRING 11.0 (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes) was used to visualize the significantly different proteins in PCOS compared to controls, and for all of the proteomic proteins in COVID-19 disease severity described by others [1] (https://string-db.org/). Interactions between proteins are evidence-based and collated from databases, experiments, neighborhood, gene fusion, co-occurrence, text mining, co-expression, and homology. Here, we determined the relationships between the platelet degranulation (a) and complement and coagulation cascade proteins (b) presented in the study by Shu et al. [1] that were significantly different between non-COVID infected PCOS and control women. a Platelet degranulation proteins that differed significantly between PCOS and control women, indicating their relationship to one another. b Complement and coagulation cascade proteins that differed significantly between PCOS and control women, indicating their relationship to one another. c Combined platelet degranulation and complement and coagulation cascade proteins that differed significantly in PCOS, indicating their relationships to one another