In participants with positive hepatitis B surface antigen or positive hepatitis C antibody (i.e., not hepatitis B carriers and did not have hepatitis C infection), the remaining 267 participants still showed a better correlation between the peritoneal fat area and GOT concentration (peritoneal fat vs. GOT, r = 0.1940, p<0.05; retroperitoneal fat vs. GOT, r = 0.0958, p>0.05 between 2 correlation coefficients) or GPT concentration (peritoneal fat vs. GPT, r = 0.2648, p<0.05; retroperitoneal fat vs. GPT, r = 0.2140, p<0.05 between 2 correlation coefficients). This evidence concerns the gene GPT and hepatitis C virus infection.