Adiponectin infiltrates rapidly into the subendothelial space of the vascular wall when the endothelial barrier of the arterial wall is injured by balloon angioplasty (30) Another study documented that the overexpression of adiponectin actually reduced atherosclerosis through attenuating endothelial inflammatory response and macrophage-to-foam cell transformation in vivo (9). Here, ADIPOQ is linked to atherosclerosis.