Similarly, no statistically significant differences were observed between the two subgroups concerning age, sex, BMI, infecting HCV genotype, presence of arterial hypertension, alcohol intake, T2DM therapeutic treatments, diabetes family history, diabetes duration, fasting blood glucose (FBG) values, number of diabetes medications, diabetes complications, serum levels of creatinine, ALT, AST, GGT, bilirubin and cholesterol values (Table 1). Here, GPT is linked to Hypertension.