GPT and Abdominal obesity: Table 3 also showed that the total noodle intake was positively linked to abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia in both genders. There were no specific gender differences. The total noodle intake had a higher association with insulin resistance in both genders, but significant differences were shown only in men. However, the total noodle intake was not significantly associated with serum hs-CRP, AST and ALT concentrations, and eGFR (Table 4).