ADIPOQ and metabolic syndrome: AdipoRon also influenced several pathways that are connected to the immune system, which agrees with recent publications that have described an anti-inflammatory role of Adiponectin in cardiac and adipose tissue, which also was connected to milder inflammation levels in the context of the metabolic syndrome (Jenke et al., 2013; Tsuchida et al., 2005; Frühbeck et al., 2017).