LEP and type 2 diabetes mellitus: However, in our recent study [50] we evaluated the correlations among various anthropometric indices (BMI, waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC), waist/hip ratio (WHR), BAI, and Visceral Adiposity Index (VAI)) and several adipocytokines (visfatin, resistin, leptin, soluble leptin receptors (sOB-R), adiponectin, ghrelin, adipsin, PAI-1, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) TNF-α, hs-CRP, IL-6, and IL-18) in patients with type 2 diabetes.