GPT and diabetes mellitus: When the baseline characteristics of patients with and without HCC were compared (Table 2), age (mean 54.5 vs. 43.0 years), proportion of diabetes mellitus (20.6 vs. 6.9%), histological F4 fibrosis stage (70.6 vs. 35.7%), and LS value (mean 20.0 vs. 13.3 kPa) were significantly higher in patients with HCC development than in those without (all P <0.05), whereas ALT level (52.4 vs. 140.5 IU/L) and platelet count (128 vs. 142 × 109/L) were significantly lower in patients with HCC development than in those without (all P <0.05).