Similarly, a marked increase in the age- and sex-adjusted risk of ischemic stroke was observed in hypertensive subjects with high resistin compared with normotensive subjects with low resistin (OR: 4.66; 95% CI: 1.81-11.97; p = 0.001), but not in normotensive subjects with high resistin (OR: 1.87; 95%CI: 0.69-5.10; p = 0.22), or hypertensive subjects with low resistin (OR: 1.52; 95%CI: 0.51-4.54; p = 0.45). Here, RETN is linked to ischemic stroke.