Thus, the vast majority of studies have shown a correlation between plasma resistin levels and hypertension (Ellington et al., 2007; Takata et al., 2008; Dimitriadis et al., 2009; Papadopoulos et al., 2009; Thomopoulos et al., 2010; Zhang et al., 2010). Here, RETN is linked to hypertensive disorder.