AIP and type 2 diabetes mellitus: After adjustment for multiple confounders including gender, age, BMI, SBP, DBP, HbA1C, AST, ALT, ALKP, GGT, HOMA-IR and anti-lipid therapy in a multivariable logistic regression model, AIP showed an independent significant relationship with MAFLD in patients with T2D with an odd's ratio of 5.057 (P-value < 0.001).