Compared with the low-score group, the high-score group had older patients (P < 0.001), a higher prevalence of diabetes (P < 0.05), a higher HTI-GPS rate (P < 0.001), a lower diastolic blood pressure (P < 0.05), higher Killip classes (P < 0.001), lower hemoglobin levels (P < 0.001), higher D-dimer levels (P < 0.001), higher creatinine levels (P < 0.001) and higher BNP levels (P < 0.001). This evidence concerns the gene NPPB and diabetes mellitus.