The relationship of leptin, resistin and adiponectin in the patients with metabolic syndrome

Abstract

Although adiponectin levels are increased in MS patients with microvascular complications, they seem to decrease as CIMT increases, indicating the role of a different mechanism in macrovascular complications.This may be related to the antiatherosclerotic actions of adiponectin, but the pathogenesis of this mechanism remains to be elucidated in this population.