GPT and diabetes mellitus: After adjusting for covariates such as age, follow-up period, T2DM duration, recuperation period, BMI, cerebrovascular disease, DM medications, antihypertensive medications, triglyceride (TG) levels, and ALT levels, hypoglycemia still contributed to a higher incidence of hospital visits, a longer duration of hospital stays and greater medical expenses (Fig 2A, 2B and 2C).