Baseline characteristics of the patients, including age (P = 0.483), gender (P = 0.679), BMI (P = 0.091), ALT (P = 0.879), genotypes (P = 0.955), presence of diabetes mellitus (P = 0.712), sonographic fatty liver (P = 0.870), and cirrhosis (P = 0.482) were not associated with the patterns of ALT change. This evidence concerns the gene GPT and diabetes mellitus.