On the univariate analysis, the risk factors associated with death at hospital admission were older age, male gender, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, raised white blood cell counts, elevated level of neutrophil counts, thrombocytopenia, creatine kinase-MB, lactate dehydrogenase, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, and creatinine (Table 4). The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is diabetes mellitus.