This association of BRI and T2DM persisted despite adjustment for sex, age, DBP, SBP, ethanol consumption, smoking status, exercise (HR = 2.285, 95% CI 2.013–2.595) (model I) or inclusion of the baseline mentioned above characteristics and ALT, AST, FBG, HbA1c, HDL-C, TC, TG (model II) (HR = 1.570, 95%CI 1.360–1.811) (Table 3). Here, GPT is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.