ALB and diabetes mellitus: This relationship of TG/HDL-C ratio and Pre-DM persisted despite adjustment for age, gender, BMI (OR = 1.247, 95%CI 1.208–1.288, P < 0.001) (model I) or inclusion of the baseline characteristics and GGT, ALT, ALB, GLB, AST, DBIL, BUN, Scr, UA, TC, LDL-C and TB (model II) (OR = 1.185, 95%CI 1.145–1.226, P < 0.001) (Table 3).