GPT and diabetes mellitus: With each 10mg/dl increase in baseline TG levels, the risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus decreased by nearly 59% (HR = 0.413, 95% CI = 0.220 - 0.778, Table 4) after adjusting for age, BMI, waist circumference, body weight, ethanol consumption, ALT, AST, GGT, exercise, HDL-cholesterol, total cholesterol, HbA1c, smoking, FPG, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and father or mother with diabetes.