No significant differences were observed in the educational level, age, body mass index, drinking, systolic blood pressure on admission, diastolic blood pressure on admission, heart rate on admission, pneumonia, prior stroke, atrial fibrillation, triglycerides, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, blood urea nitrogen, uric acid, leukocyte count, or platelet count. This evidence concerns the gene GPT and susceptibility to pneumonia measurement.