Plasma adipsin showed strong positive correlations with C5a (ρ = 0.695), IL‐6 (ρ = 0.687), and TNF‐α (ρ = 0.645), and moderate correlations with malaria parasite density (ρ = 0.553), IL‐8 (ρ = 0.475) and C3a (ρ = 0.437) (p < 0.001 for all). This evidence concerns the gene CXCL8 and malaria.