ADIPOQ and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth (TODAY) study has observed that non-Hispanic blacks had significantly lower levels of total adiponectin, High Molecular Weight Adiponectin (HMWA) and HMWA-to-total adiponectin ratio at the baseline compared to non-Hispanic Whites and Hispanics (Arslanian et al., 2017).