ADIPOQ and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Consistent with previous reports [6], [22], our results showed that, fasting serum adiponectin levels were more than 3 times lower in type 2 diabetes compared with healthy controls (5.31±0.50 μg/ml vs. 16.36±1.07 μg/ml; age and sex-adjusted p<0.001) (Table 1 & Figure 1A).