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). The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.