Except for age, there was no significant difference in baseline characteristics including marital status, level of education, occupation, use of drugs affecting liver and blood lipids, sex, weight, BMI, WC, blood pressure (BP, FBG, total cholesterol, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C, AST, ALT, fibrosis, and hepatic steatosis between the two groups at baseline (Table 1). The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is fibrosis.