ADIPOQ and type 2 diabetes mellitus: In further analysis of the adiponectin data, it was also observed that women with T2DM had lower adiponectin levels than their ND counterparts, although T2DM women were noted to show adiponectin positively associated with TL and the levels were higher in women than men in the present study, which affirms previously noted sex- and ethnicity-specific differences in other studies [50,51].