ADIPOQ and coronary atherosclerosis: Furthermore, Nakajima, T. et al. (2019) have shown that diminished mitochondrial OXPHOS capacity in the epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is closely linked to decreased concentration of adiponectin in the EAT and to the severity of coronary atherosclerosis [86], which is in line with the reduced OXPHOS complex I activity observed in the WHT of the 5.5CG.