In regard to serum SAH levels (Table 1 and Supplementary Table S2), the mean values of age, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and BMI, the frequencies of men, low education, use of anti-hypertensive agents, hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus, use of antidiabetic medication, electrocardiogram abnormalities, and history of stroke, and the geometric means of serum ALT and serum hs-CRP increased significantly with higher levels of serum SAH, while the mean value of serum total cholesterol decreased significantly with higher levels of serum SAH. This evidence concerns the gene GPT and hypertensive disorder.