ADIPOQ and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Adiponectin levels in newly diagnosed T2DM patients with normoalbuminuria were found to be strongly correlated with BMI, HbA1c, insulin, HOMA-IR, and microalbumin (r = 0.437, 0.655, 0.570, 0.532, and 0.573, respectively; p = 0.0001**) and it was found to be significantly negatively correlated to eGFR (r = -0.347; p = 0.0001**).