RETN and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The median resistin concentration was significantly higher in patients with newly diagnosed T2DM who were obese than in either healthy participants or in patients with newly diagnosed T2DM who had normal BMI (7.14 [4.66–13.51] ng/mL, 4.36 [3.41–7.01] ng/mL, and 4.73 [3.37–9.53] ng/mL, respectively; P = .001).