Higher tertiles of FLI were accompanied by larger BMI and WC, higher frequencies of habits of alcohol drinking and smoking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia, higher levels of systolic and diastolic blood pressures, hemoglobin, platelet, uric acid, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, γ-GTP, fasting plasma glucose, hemoglobin A1c, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides and lower level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in both sexes. The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is Hypertension.