Serum Levels of the Adipokine Zinc-α2-glycoprotein Are Decreased in Patients with Hypertension

Table 2

Serum levels of ZAG and other adipokines in HBP patients and healthy controls.

	Healthy controls	HBP patients	𝑃 value
ZAG (μg/mL)	78.3±42.0	61.4±32.2	0.020
Male	88.3±54.2	65.3±35.6	0.113
Female	71.1±31.0	53.0±23.3	0.029
Total adiponectin (μg/mL)	5.02±2.23	5.61±2.74	0.304
HMW adiponectin (μg/mL)	5.24±1.02	2.32±0.41	0.046
Male	5.32±1.66	2.31±0.39	0.004
Female	5.83±2.43	4.01±3.07	0.484
TNF𝛼 (pg/mL)	2.34±0.99	3.30±1.56	0.002
Male	2.87±0.95	3.11±1.17	0.484
Female	1.98±0.86	3.72±2.20	0.002

ZAG: zinc-alpha2-glycoprotein; HMW adiponectin: high molecular weight adiponectin; TNF𝛼: tumor necrosis factor 𝛼.