RETN and diabetes mellitus: There was a significant positive correlation corrected for age and gender, between resistin and diabetes duration (r = 0.35;p < 0.05) hypertension (r = 0.22;p = 0.022), dyslipidaemia (r = 0.027; p = 0.041), BMI (r = 0.29; p = 0.022), mycroalbuminuria (r = 0.30; p < 0.05), retinopathy (r = 0.26; p = 0.031), previous TIA/stroke (r = 0.31; p < 0.0001), neuropathy (r = 0.33; p < 0.0001, diabetic foot grade (r = 0.32 = < 0.0001)(see table 3).