ADIPOQ and hypertensive disorder: In stratified analysis, HMW adiponectin concentrations associated significantly with high blood pressure values as well as favorable lipid parameters, low glucose concentrations and low number of metabolic risk factors in black but not white patients; HMW adiponectin concentrations related to large VCAM-1 and ICAM-1-1 concentrations as well as large endothelial activation score in white but not black participants.