As depicted in Figure 1, these 59 patients with carotid atherosclerosis had increased plasma levels of FABP4 when compared with sex- and age-matched healthy controls (n = 18), but with no differences between patients with asymptomatic (n = 28) and symptomatic (n = 31) carotid lesion (p = 0.29). The gene discussed is FABP4; the disease is carotid atherosclerosis.