The results suggested that after adjusting BMI, gender, DBP, SBP, TC, LDL, TG, HDL, FPG, AST, ALT, family history of diabetes, eGFR was still negatively associated with incident diabetes (HR = 0.986, 95% CI:0.983–0.988, p < 0.00001) (Supplementary Table 1). Here, GPT is linked to diabetes mellitus.