Table 1.

The Correlation Between Levels of Endotrophin and Diseases

Disease	Correlation	Tissue/Serum/Plasma	References
Obesity and diabetes	Positive	Adipose tissue	Sun et al. (243)
Renal fibrosis	Positive	Kidney	Rasmussen et al. (211)
Type 2 diabetes	Positive	Serum	Karsdal et al. (112)
Chronic kidney disease	Positive	Serum	Fenton et al. (56)
Breast cancer	Positive	Plasma	Bu et al. (22)
Heart failure	Positive	Serum	Eruzun et al. (54)
Hepatocellular carcinoma	Positive	Tumor-neighboring regions	Lee et al. (138)
Cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma	Positive	Plasma	Leeming et al. (145)
Obese children	Positive	Plasma	Ezzati-Mobaser et al. (55)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	Positive	Serum	Rønnow et al. (215)
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	Positive	Serum	Kim et al. (117)
Atherosclerotic	Positive	Atherosclerotic plaque	Holm Nielsen et al. (91)
Acute-on-chronic liver failure	Positive	Plasma	Kerbert et al. (115)
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis	Positive	Serum	Hagström et al. (76)
Chronic multimorbidity	Positive	Serum	Staunstrup et al. (238)
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)	Positive	Serum	Guney et al. (72)
Crohn’s disease	Positive	Serum	Lindholm et al. (154)
Diabetic nephropathy	Positive	Serum	Yoldemir et al. (281)
Chronic kidney disease	Positive	Serum	Sparding et al. (235)
Kidney fibrosis	Positive	Serum	Genovese et al. (66)
Fibrotic interstitial lung diseases	Positive	Serum	Dasdemir Ilkhan et al. (44)
Kidney transplantation	Negative	Pretransplant plasma endotrophin	Tepel et al. (250)