However, adiponectin concentrations remained strongly associated with high systolic, diastolic, and mean blood pressure as well as low LDL and non-HDL cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations, high HDL cholesterol concentrations, and low total-HDL cholesterol and triglycerides-HDL cholesterol ratios in RA, whereas no associations with metabolic risk factors were present any longer in non-RA subjects. Here, ADIPOQ is linked to rheumatoid arthritis.