GPT and hypertensive disorder: Hypertension is an independent of predictor of advanced liver; other predictors were high serum ALT and C-peptide levels.64 High-salt diet aggravated the BP of spontaneously hypertensive rats was associated with increased serum ALT levels.65 Dahl salt-sensitive rats fed a high-salt diet are hypertensive and hyperlipidemic.66 We also found that a high-salt diet increased serum ALT but not AST levels in Cckbrfl/fl WT mice.